Radhakamal Mukerjee championed a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of human society, rejecting pure economic reductionism and extreme positivism. Rooted in the Greek etymology of oikos (household/environment) and logos (study), Mukerjee expanded human ecology far beyond biological and plant communities into the realm of social values, culture, and institutional frameworks.
- Institutional Synthesis: Mukerjee argued that economic life cannot be studied in isolation from social institutions, moral values, and ecological habitats. His works bridge classical political economy with Durkheimian moral solidarity and ecological balance.
- Theory of Social Values: Mukerjee viewed society as an ascending hierarchy of values—biological, economic, social, and spiritual—where human evolution is marked by the progressive sublimation of animal drives into moral and cultural imperatives.