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Lo, Kai Ching. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-221). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Acknowledgement --- p.vi ; Abstract --- p.viii ; INTRODUCTION --- p.1 ; Chapter I. --- The Problem: A Brief Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter I.a. --- Research Problems --- p.1 ; Chapter I.b. --- The Subject Matters --- p.2 ; Chapter I.e. --- Conceptualization of the Subject Matters --- p.3 ; Chapter I.d. --- "The Orientation of the Research: Habermas, Luhmann, and Theory" --- p.6 ; Chapter I.e. --- Outline of the Research Result --- p.13 ; Chapter II. --- The Context --- p.17 ; Chapter II.a. --- Ethics and Morality in Modern Society --- p.17 ; Chapter II.b. --- Ethics and Morality in Sociology --- p.19 ; Chapter II.b.l. --- Durkheim and Weber: Conception of Ethics and Morality --- p.20 ; Chapter II.b.2. --- Successions and Revisions of Durkheim's and Weber's Perspectives --- p.25 ; Chapter II.b.3. --- Habermas's and Luhmann's Breakthrough --- p.29 ; Chapter III. --- The Framework --- p.31 ; Chapter III.a. --- The Use of Metatheory --- p.31 ; Chapter III.b. --- The Limitation of this thesis --- p.33 ; Chapter PART I. --- HABERMAS AND LUHMANN AS THE EXEMPLARS OF SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRIES OF ETHICS AND MORALITY --- p.35 ; Chapter Chapter 1: --- Habermas's Discourse Ethics and The Theory of Communicative Action --- p.37 ; Chapter 1.1. --- Discourse Ethics --- p.38 ; Chapter 1.1.1. --- Discourse Ethics as the Sociology of Ethics and Morality --- p.40 ; Chapter 1.1.2. --- The Logic of Discourse Ethics --- p.46 ; Chapter 1.1.3. --- Morality and Ethical Life: From Philosophy and Politics to Sociology --- p.53 ; Chapter 1.2. --- The Theory of Communicative Action: The Sociological Foundation of Discourse Ethics --- p.61 ; Chapter 1.2.1. --- The Paradox of Rationalization and the Paradigmatic Change --- p.63 ; Chapter 1.2.2. --- Universal Pragmatics: The Foundation of Moral Order --- p.65 ; Chapter 1.2.3. --- Communicative Rationality and the Life world: The ...

This study investigates the contribution of Islamic banks and Islamic windows to the growth of the Nigerian economy. Data were obtained using structured questionnaires. 379 copies of questionnaires were administered based on the sample size obtained via the use of Taro Yamane formula. 367 questionnaires were successfully retrieved. Variables such as deposit activities, loan activities, and perception of bank employees were also adopted as explanatory or independent variable and dependent variable respectively. To support the study hypothesis were also formulated. For the analysis, measures of central tendency (tables, frequency and percentages) and inferential statistics (Logit Regression) were used. The result revealed that the variables (i.e. deposit and loan activities) have a positive impact on the growth of Nigeria's economy because the probability values of the variables (P=0.003 and 0.019) were less than alpha (α =0.05) level of significance. In other words, this implies that Islamic banks and windows have largely supported private consumption, business investments of its customers, aid government spending via sharia bonds (sukuk) to fund developmental projects of its customers. The study concludes that Islamic banks and windows have contributed towards the growth of the Nigeria's economy. Furthermore, the study recommends that there is need for creating the necessary legal framework to ensure its smooth operations, intensify efforts on creating public awareness, rolling out more sharia compliant products that can take care of the peculiarities that exist in business environment and training and retraining of staff on effective Islamic banking.