On Social Structure and Science

Name: On Social Structure and Science
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ISBN: 9780226520711

ISBN-10: 0226520714

ISBN-13: 9780226520711

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka

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Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time. A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contributions have become fundamental to the field, Merton is best known for introducing such concepts and procedures as unanticipated consequences, self-fulfilling prophecies, focused group interviews, middle-range theory, opportunity structure, and analytic paradigms. This definitive compilation encompasses the breadth and brilliance of his works, from the earliest to the most recent. Merton's foundational writings on social structure and process, on the sociology of science and knowledge, and on the discipline and trajectory of sociology itself…

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List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 394
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Uses and Abuses of Classical Theory



Theoretical Pluralism



On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range



Specified Ignorance



Paradigms: The Codification of Sociological Theory



Paradigm for Functional Analysis in Sociology



Manifest and Latent Functions



Social Dysfunctions



Paradigm for Structural Analysis in Sociology



The Role-Set



Sociological Ambivalence



Social Structure and Anomie



Opportunity Structure



Socially Expected Durations



The Unanticipated Consequences of Social Action



The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy



Paradigm for the Sociology of Knowledge



The Rise of Modern Science



Insiders and Outsiders



The Ethos of Science



Science and the Social Order



The Reward System of Science



Multiple Discoveries in Science



The Matthew Effect, II Coda: A Life of Learning Publications by and about Robert K. Merton: A Select


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