NPTEL : NOC:Sociology of Development (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Sambit Mallick


Lecture 1 - Sociology of development: An overview

Lecture 2 - Development historically

Lecture 3 - Decolonization, nationalism and development - I

Lecture 4 - Decolonization, nationalism and development - II

Lecture 5 - Decolonization, nationalism and development - III

Lecture 6 - Social evolution and social change

Lecture 7 - Social change and progress

Lecture 8 - Modernization Theory: An Overview

Lecture 9 - State and Class under Peripheral Capitalism

Lecture 10 - Critique of Samuel Huntington

Lecture 11 - Class, State and Revolution

Lecture 12 - The Empirical Peasantry and the Hypothetical Proletariat

Lecture 13 - Class and Classness: Substitutes and Realities

Lecture 14 - Modernization and Huntington's Argument

Lecture 15 - Huntington, Social Sciences and Ideology

Lecture 16 - The Ideological, Empirical and Methodological Critiques - I

Lecture 17 - The Ideological, Empirical and Methodological Critiques - II

Lecture 18 - Dependency Theory: Intellectual Antecedents

Lecture 19 - The Latin American Debates on Underdevelopment - I

Lecture 20 - The Latin American Debates on Underdevelopment - II

Lecture 21 - Dependency Theory in Transition - I

Lecture 22 - Dependency Theory in Transition - II

Lecture 23 - Critiques of Dependency Theory - I

Lecture 24 - Critiques of Dependency Theory - II

Lecture 25 - Limits to Growth - I

Lecture 26 - Limits to Growth - II

Lecture 27 - E. F. Schmacher's Small is Beautiful

Lecture 28 - Ivan Illich's Towards a History of Needs

Lecture 29 - Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained: Development studies in the 21st century - I

Lecture 30 - Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained: Development studies in the 21st century - II