# Philosophical Foundations Of Social Research

- Institution: IIT Guwahati
- Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher: Prof. Sambit Mallick
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [NPTEL](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109103184)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA](https://nptel.ac.in/faq) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109103184)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

## Lectures

1. [Lec 1 : Empiricism and Rationalism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/df91d0f326ff) (Video)
2. [Lec 2 : Comte and Positivism; Epistemology and Ontology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/049fc4aa10d2) (Video)
3. [Lec 4 : Sociology of Knowledge](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/d4fa788c294d) (Video)
4. [Lec 5 : Religion and the Division of Labour in Society](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/b91ceb1fa8fe) (Video)
5. [Lec 6 : Positivism and Neo-Kantianism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/eb84cc493d11) (Video)
6. [Lec 7 : Methodology of the Social Sciences](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/d34e5694036d) (Video)
7. [Lec 8 : Interpretive Sociology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/c99bd9880e11) (Video)
8. [Lec 9 : Methodological Individualism and Interpretative Understanding of Social Action](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/ffdfd5c04136) (Video)
9. [Lec 10 : Weberian Social Sciences: Methodological Implications](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/cfb05c9ea186) (Video)
10. [Lec 11 : Materialist Conception of History](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/6ef9215b1253) (Video)
11. [Lec 12 : Dialectic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/72962f9f790c) (Video)
12. [Lec 13 : Nature, Ideology and Science](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/0f057c6c891a) (Video)
13. [Lec 14 : Systematic Falsification](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/8a287d2a2c01) (Video)
14. [Lec 15 : Hypothetico-Deductive Model](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/d82319383ee8) (Video)
15. [Lec 16 : The Structure of Scientific Revolutions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/7a434c0f6358) (Video)
16. [Lec 17 : Popper Versus Kuhn](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/9ec2114bb3cc) (Video)
17. [Lec 18 : Positivism Versus Hermeneutics - I](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/41a1a1630fbd) (Video)
18. [Lec 19 : Positivism Versus Hermeneutics - II](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/50170d1e0381) (Video)
19. [Lec 20 : Philosophy of Social Sciences: Taking Stock](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/e40b0b7dec67) (Video)
20. [Lec 21 : End of the Philosophy of the Social Sciences](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/f87e5c863923) (Video)
21. [Lec 22 : Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/5733901bb445) (Video)
22. [Lec 23 : An Overview of the Course](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/5003ee9a341a) (Video)
23. [Live Session 02-03-2021](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/df91d0f326ff-2) (Video)
24. [Live Session 24-02-2021](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/049fc4aa10d2-2) (Video)
25. [Live Session 15-02-2022](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/16dccbb35b40) (YouTube)
26. [Live Session 03-03-2022](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103184/d4fa788c294d-2) (Video)