NOC:Philosophical Foundations of Social Research

Media Storage Type : 32 GB USB Stick

NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Prof. Sambit Mallick

NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Guwahati

NPTEL Lecture Count : 23

NPTEL Course Size : 6.5 GB

NPTEL PDF Text Transcription : Available and Included

NPTEL Subtitle Transcription : Available and Included (SRT)

Lecture Titles:

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