The status of human knowledge and intrests in sociological books at the senior level of Iranian high school

The purpose of this study is to investigate "the status of human knowledge and interests" in sociology books at the senior level of Iranian high school. To this end, we use qualitative method and critical approach to analyzing the contents of textbooks. In this research, the review is done in two ways: first internal criticism and second external textual criticism. External textual criticism is based on the models that theoretical framework gives us which includes experimental-theoretical model, interactional-hermeneutic model, and critical-emancipation model. With this adaptation, we want to com to an understanding that how human interests and its relative knowledge are introduced in these books. Internal criticism is based on text data analysis. In conclusion, we find out that there is a new approach and interest in textbooks that on which, attempt is made to evaluate sociology. This kind of interest involves none of interests proposed in Habermas  models. It con be called "localization of sociology". This new interest has its own special components. Its elements are1) some principles of western sociology in social science 2) elements of Islamic mysticism, philosophy, and theology and 3) elements of national identity nationalism.