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