Rekonstruksi Struktur Sosial melalui Dakwah Transformatif

Abstract

Contemporary social changes have given rise to a societal structure that is increasingly fluid, complex, and multidimensional—driven largely by digitalization, economic transformation, and shifts in social relationships and authority. This situation has sparked academic unease, as conventional concepts of social structure tend to view society through relatively static categories of stratification, status, role, and mobility, whereas the dynamics of power structures and social influence are evolving rapidly. Meanwhile, the study of *dakwah* (Islamic outreach) often frames it merely as a process of transmitting religious messages and altering individual behavior, leaving its structural and transformative dimensions underdeveloped. This article aims to reconstruct the concept of social structure through the lens of transformative *dakwah* by integrating critical sociological approaches with Islamic Studies. Employing a literature-based methodology involving a critical-conceptual analysis of the sociology of literature, Islamic Studies, and transformative *dakwah*, the study proceeds through stages of identification, critique, integration, and theoretical reconstruction. The article argues that *dakwah* should be positioned not merely as the communication of Islamic values, but as a social praxis capable of interpreting power relations, fostering critical consciousness, promoting empowerment, and initiating the transformation of social structures. It contributes a "Social Structure–Transformative *Dakwah*" framework that links social structure, power relations, critical consciousness, collective action, and societal transformation. This framework shifts the sociological study of *dakwah* from a descriptive orientation toward a transformative paradigm.