Introductory Sociology (NPTEL)

About this course

An NPTEL course introducing sociology with many Indian examples: society, family, the state, work, religion, education, stratification and social change. Who it's for: humanities students and UPSC aspirants with sociology as an optional subject. These are the free, official videos of the "Humanities - Introductory Sociology" playlist (NPTEL) from the nptelhrd YouTube channel (youtube.com/@iit). All videos belong to NPTEL; Sikhami is not affiliated with NPTEL and simply arranges the public playlist into a course, so you can learn one lesson at a time and keep track of your progress.

What you will learn

• What sociology is, and cooperation and conflict • Family and the state, including the state in India • The sociology of work and of religion • Education and its functions • Social stratification, including stratification in India • Social change, urbanisation, perspectives and methods such as ethnography

Course content

1 section · 41 lectures · 37h 6m

1. 1. Humanities - Introductory Sociology

   • Mod-01 Lec-01 What is sociology?54m
   • Mod-01 Lec-02 Sociological approaches50m
   • Mod-01 Lec-03 Nature of society: Individuals and groups49m
   • Mod-01 Lec-04 Cooperation and conflict52m
   • Mod-01 Lec-05 Family-I: Definition and classification of family55m
   • Mod-01 Lec-06 Family-II: Perspectives on family51m
   • Mod-01 Lec-07 State-I: Definition of state56m
   • Mod-01 Lec-08 State-II: State in India49m
   • Mod-01 Lec-09 State-III: The concept of power55m
   • Mod-01 Lec-10 State-IV: Functionalist and Marxist perspectives on power55m
   • Mod-01 Lec-11 Sociology of work-I: Need for work49m
   • Mod-01 Lec-12 Sociology of work-II: Social change and work49m
   • Mod-01 Lec-13 Sociology of work-III: Development and work56m
   • Mod-01 Lec-14 Sociology of work-IV: Capitalism and motivation for work51m
   • Mod-01 Lec-15 Religion-I: Social conditions and religious thought55m
   • Mod-01 Lec-16 Religion-II: Bases of religion56m
   • Mod-01 Lec-17 Religion-III: Forms of religious beliefs59m
   • Mod-01 Lec-18 Religion-IV: Explanation of Religion49m
   • Mod-01 Lec-19 Religion-V: Religion and society57m
   • Mod-01 Lec-20 Religion-VI: Contributions of Marx and Weber49m
   • Mod-01 Lec-21 Education-I: Concept of education?55m
   • Mod-01 Lec-22 Education-II: Functions of education57m
   • Mod-01 Lec-23 Social stratification-I: Social inequality and stratification56m
   • Mod-01 Lec-24 Social stratification-II: Explanations of social stratification58m
   • Mod-01 Lec-25 Social stratification-III: Theories and facts55m
   • Mod-01 Lec-26 Social stratification-IV: Stratification in India58m
   • Mod-01 Lec-27 Deviance-I: Concept of deviance54m
   • Mod-01 Lec-28 Deviance-II: Perspectives on deviance58m
   • Mod-01 Lec-29 Deviance-III: Theories of deviance50m
   • Mod-01 Lec-30 Social change-I: Definition of social change58m
   • Mod-01 Lec-31 Social change-II: Theories of social change50m
   • Mod-01 Lec-32 Social change-III: Social change in industrial society1h 0m
   • Mod-01 Lec-33 Social change-IV: Urbanization and related issues in social change55m
   • Mod-01 Lec-34 Population-I: Malthusian theory of population53m
   • Mod-01 Lec-35 Population-II: Population and Society53m
   • Mod-01 Lec-36 Perspectives in Sociology-I1h 2m
   • Mod-01 Lec-37 Perspectives in Sociology-II53m
   • Mod-01 Lec-38 Social Problems and Theory55m
   • Mod-01 Lec-39 Sociological methods-I54m
   • Mod-01 Lec-40 Sociological methods-II: Ethnography49m
   • Mod-01 Lec-41 Sociological methods-III: Ethnography in India49m