NPTEL : NOC:Classical Sociological Theory (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. R. Santhosh


Lecture 1 - Sociology an Overview

Lecture 2 - Sociological perspective

Lecture 3 - C Wrigh Mill's Socioloigcal Imagination

Lecture 4 - Thinking Sociologically: Zygmunt Bauman

Lecture 5 - Emergence of Sociology: The, socio-political, economic and intellectual context

Lecture 6 - Enlightenment

Lecture 7 - Emegernce of nation-state and French Revolution

Lecture 8 - Industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism

Lecture 9 - Discussion with Dr. Roland Part - 1

Lecture 10 - Discussion with Dr. Roland Part - 2

Lecture 11 - Clasical Thinkers of Sociology

Lecture 12 - Auguste Comte

Lecture 13 - Herbert Spencer

Lecture 14 - Marx Durkheim and Weber

Lecture 15 - Factory scene from Modern Times

Lecture 16 - Karl Marx Life

Lecture 17 - Intellectual Influence

Lecture 18 - Historical Materialism

Lecture 19 - Marxian theory of social Change

Lecture 20 - Theory of Capitalism - 1

Lecture 21 - Theory of Capitalism - 2

Lecture 22 - Karl Marx and Alienation

Lecture 23 - Karl Marx and Religion

Lecture 24 - Marx on Democracy, and Colonialism

Lecture 25 - Marx - An Appraisal

Lecture 26 - Emile Durkheim; Life and Intellectual Influences

Lecture 27 - The Rules of the Sociological Method

Lecture 28 - Division of Labour (1893)

Lecture 29 - Division of Labour (Continued...)

Lecture 30 - Suicide (1897)

Lecture 31 - Elementary forms of Religious Life (1912)

Lecture 32 - Durkheim on Education, Colonialism and Democracy

Lecture 33 - Durkheim An Assessment

Lecture 34 - Max Weber: Life and Intellectual Influences

Lecture 35 - Weber’s Methodology of the Social Sciences

Lecture 36 - Rationalization and social action

Lecture 37 - Rationalization and Authority

Lecture 38 - The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism

Lecture 39 - MODERN RATIONAL CAPITALISM

Lecture 40 - Bureaucracy

Lecture 41 - Social Stratification: Calss, Status Group, and Party

Lecture 42 - Comparative Religion and Disenchantment

Lecture 43 - Weber on democracy and colonialism

Lecture 44 - Critical Assessment

Lecture 45 - Ferdinand Tonnies (1885-1936)

Lecture 46 - George Simmel (1858 - 1918)

Lecture 47 - Social Differentiation and Conflict

Lecture 48 - Simmel on Philosophy of Money

Lecture 49 - Mind, Self and Society

Lecture 50 - George Herbert Mead

Lecture 51 - Mead on Self

Lecture 52 - Mead on Society

Lecture 53 - Perkins Gilman and the gender question

Lecture 54 - Dubois and question of race

Lecture 55 - Classical Sociological Theory and Modernity: A Recap

Lecture 56 - Subsequent Development of Sociological Theory: Structural Functionalism

Lecture 57 - Conflict Theory

Lecture 58 - Interactionist Perspective

Lecture 59 - Theoretical orientations and methodologies

Lecture 60 - Conclusion