Robert K. Merton

Columbia University Press

2010

xii, 320 p.

A Columbia/SSRC book

9780231151122

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.

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