NPTEL : NOC:Philosophical Foundations of Social Research (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Sambit Mallick


Lecture 1 - Empiricism and Rationalism

Lecture 2 - Comte and Positivism; Epistemology and Ontology

Lecture 3 - The Rules of Sociological Method

Lecture 4 - Sociology of Knowledge

Lecture 5 - Religion and the Division of Labour in Society

Lecture 6 - Positivism and Neo-Kantianism

Lecture 7 - Methodology of the Social Sciences

Lecture 8 - Interpretive Sociology

Lecture 9 - Methodological Individualism and Interpretative Understanding of Social Action

Lecture 10 - Weberian Social Sciences: Methodological Implications

Lecture 11 - Materialist Conception of History

Lecture 12 - Dialectic

Lecture 13 - Nature, Ideology and Science

Lecture 14 - Systematic Falsification

Lecture 15 - Hypothetico - Deductive Model

Lecture 16 - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Lecture 17 - Popper Versus Kuhn

Lecture 18 - Positivism Versus Hermeneutics - I

Lecture 19 - Positivism Versus Hermeneutics - II

Lecture 20 - Philosophy of Social Sciences: Taking Stock

Lecture 21 - End of the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Lecture 22 - Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences

Lecture 23 - An Overview of the Course