| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Paradoxes of Robert K. Merton: Fragmentary Reflections / Arnold Thackray -- 2. Looking for Shoulders to Stand on, or for a Paradigm for the Sociology of Science / Anna Wessely -- 3. R.K. Merton in France: Foucault, Bourdieu, Latour and the Invention of Mainstream Sociology in Paris / Jean-Louis Fabiani -- 4. Merton in South Asia: The Question of Religion and the Modernity of Science / Dhruv Raina -- 5. Contribution of Robert K. Merton's Key Concepts to the Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Society / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein -- 6. Tribute to Robert Merton: Protestant and Catholic Ethics Revisited / Rivka Feldhay -- 7. Concept of Ambivalence in the Relationship between Science and Society / Helga Nowotny -- 8. Re-evaluating the Place of Science in Evaluating Modernity / Gabriel Motzkin -- 9. Democracy and the Normative Structure of Science after Modernity / Yaron Ezrahi -- 10. Matthew Effect Writ Large and Larger: A Study in Sociological Semantics / Harriet Zuckerman -- 11. Repetition with Variation: A Mertonian Inquiry into a Lost Mertonian Concept / Charles Camic -- 12. Robert K. Merton and the Tansformation of Sociology of Knowledge and Possible New Directions / Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt |
| Summary |
Offers a comprehensive perspective on knowledge production in the field of sociology. Moreover, it is a tribute to the scope of Merton's work and the influence Merton has had on the work and life of sociologists around the world. This is reflected in each of the 12 chapters by internationally acclaimed scholars witnessing the range of fields Merton has contributed to as well as the personal impact he has had on sociologists. This approach is in itself a tribute to Merton: an analysis of knowledge production through a contextualized review of an author's life-work - a quintessentially "Mertonian" enterprise |
| Analysis |
Ethics, History, History of science, Modernity, Sociology, United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003.
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| SUBJECT |
Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003
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Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003 fast |
| Subject |
Sociology -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Sociology
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Elkana, Yehuda, 1934-2012, editor.
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Szigeti, András, editor.
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Lissauer, György, editor.
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| LC no. |
2011028616 |
| ISBN |
9781441697981 |
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1441697985 |
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9786155053429 |
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6155053421 |
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1283292912 |
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9781283292917 |
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9786613292919 |
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6613292915 |
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