On social structure and science /

On social structure and science /

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-fu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003
Corporate Author: History of Science Collection (Brown University)
Other Authors: Sztompka, Piotr
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996
Chicago : c1996
Chicago : ©1996
Chicago, IL : 1996
Chicago : [1996]
Series:Heritage of sociology
Heritage of sociology
Heritage of sociology
Subjects:
Science > Social aspects
Social structure
Sociology > Philosophy
Science > sociology
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Uses and Abuses of Classical Theory
  • 2. Theoretical Pluralism
  • 3. On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range
  • 4. Specified Ignorance
  • 5. Paradigms: The Codification of Sociological Theory
  • 6. Paradigm for Functional Analysis in Sociology
  • 7. Manifest and Latent Functions
  • 8. Social Dysfunctions
  • 9. Paradigm for Structural Analysis in Sociology
  • 10. The Role-Set
  • 11. Sociological Ambivalence
  • 12. Social Structure and Anomie
  • 13. Opportunity Structure
  • 14. Socially Expected Durations
  • 15. The Unanticipated Consequences of Social Action
  • 16. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • 17. Paradigm for the Sociology of Knowledge
  • 18. The Rise of Modern Science
  • 19. Insiders and Outsiders
  • 20. The Ethos of Science
  • 21. Science and the Social Order
  • 22. The Reward System of Science
  • 23. Multiple Discoveries in Science
  • 24. The Matthew Effect, II
  • Coda: A Life of Learning
  • Publications by and about Robert K. Merton: A Select Bibliography
  • 1 The Uses and Abuses of Classical Theory
  • 2. Theoretical Pluralism
  • 3. On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range
  • 4. Specified Ignorance
  • 5. Paradigms: The Codification of Sociological Theory
  • 6. Paradigm for Functional Analysis in Sociology
  • 7. Manifest and Latent Functions
  • 8. Social Dysfunctions
  • 9. Paradigm for Structural Analysis in Sociology
  • 10. The Role-Set
  • 11. Sociological Ambivalence
  • 12. Social Structure and Anomie
  • 13. Opportunity Structure
  • 14. Socially Expected Durations
  • 15. The Unanticipated Consequences of Social Action
  • 16. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • 17. Paradigm for the Sociology of Knowledge
  • 18. The Rise of Modern Science
  • 19. Insiders and Outsiders
  • 20. The Ethos of Science
  • 21. Science and the Social Order
  • 22. The Reward System of Science
  • 23. Multiple Discoveries in Science
  • 24. The Matthew Effect, II
  • Coda: A Life of Learning
  • Publications by and about Robert K. Merton: A Select Bibliography.
  • 1 The Uses and Abuses of Classical Theory
  • 2. Theoretical Pluralism
  • 3. On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range
  • 4. Specified Ignorance
  • 5. Paradigms: The Codification of Sociological Theory
  • 6. Paradigm for Functional Analysis in Sociology
  • 7. Manifest and Latent Functions
  • 8. Social Dysfunctions
  • 9. Paradigm for Structural Analysis in Sociology
  • 10. The Role-Set
  • 11. Sociological Ambivalence
  • 12. Social Structure and Anomie
  • 13. Opportunity Structure
  • 14. Socially Expected Durations
  • 15. The Unanticipated Consequences of Social Action
  • 16. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • 17. Paradigm for the Sociology of Knowledge
  • 18. The Rise of Modern Science
  • 19. Insiders and Outsiders
  • 20. The Ethos of Science
  • 21. Science and the Social Order
  • 22. The Reward System of Science
  • 23. Multiple Discoveries in Science
  • 24. The Matthew Effect, II
  • Coda: A Life of Learning
  • I Theoretical Work in Sociology
  • Varieties of Theoretical Work
  • 1 The Uses and Abuses of Classical Theory 23
  • 2 Theoretical Pluralism 34
  • 3 On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range 41
  • 4 Specified Ignorance 51
  • 5 Paradigms: The Codification of Sociological Theory 57
  • Analytic Frameworks for Sociology
  • 6 Paradigm for Functional Analysis in Sociology 65
  • 7 Manifest and Latent Functions 87
  • 8 Social Dysfunctions 96
  • 9 Paradigm for Structural Analysis in Sociology 101
  • II Social Structure and Its Vicissitudes
  • Structural Complexes and Contradictions
  • 10 The Role-Set 113
  • 11 Sociological Ambivalence 123
  • 12 Social Structure and Anomie 132
  • 13 Opportunity Structure 153
  • 14 Socially Expected Durations 162
  • Paradoxes of Social Process
  • 15 The Unanticipated Consequences of Social Action 173
  • 16 The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 183
  • III Science As a Social Structure
  • The Sociology of Knowledge
  • 17 Paradigm for the Sociology of Knowledge 205
  • 18 The Rise of Modern Science 223
  • 19 Insiders and Outsiders 241
  • The Social Institution of Science
  • 20 The Ethos of Science 267
  • 21 Science and the Social Order 277
  • 22 The Reward System of Science 286
  • 23 Multiple Discoveries in Science 305
  • 24 The Matthew Effect, II 318
  • Coda: A Life of Learning 339
  • Publications by and about Robert K. Merton: A Select Bibliography 361
  • Publications by and about Robert K. Merton: A Select Bibliography

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