Robert K. Merton : sociology of science and sociology as science / edited by Craig Calhoun. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2010. - xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - A Columbia/SSRC book . - Columbia/SSRC book .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Merton's legacy and contemporary sociology / Craig Calhoun -- Reflections on a common theme : establishing the phenomenon, adumbration, and ideal types / Alejandro Portes -- Mechanisms of the middle range / Charles Tilly -- Eliding the theory/research and basic/applied divides : implications of Merton's middle range / Robert J. Sampson -- The contributions of Robert K. Merton to culture theory / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein -- Culture and uncertainty / Viviana A. Zelizer -- "Paradigm for the sociology of science" / Thomas F. Gieryn -- A critical reconsideration of the ethos and autonomy of science / Aaron L. Panofsky -- Merton, Mannheim, and the sociology of knowledge / Alan Sica -- The ethos of science and the ethos of democracy / Ragnvald Kalleberg -- Merton's sociology of rhetoric / Peter Simonson -- On sociological semantics as an evolving research program / Harriet Zuckerman -- How Merton sociologizes the history of ideas / Charles Camic.

9780231151122 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231151128 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231521840 (ebook) 0231521847 (ebook)


Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003


Sociologists--United States.
Sociólogos--Estados Unidos
Sociology--United States.
Sociología--Estados Unidos
Science--Social aspects.
Ciencia --Aspectos sociales
Science--Philosophy.

HM 477 / R639 2010

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