The Scientist

Robert Merton

Scientists' Competitive Behavior Is Not Peculiar To Our Competitive Age Author: Robert K. Merton, pp.12 century, America's preeminent science historian/sociologist, Robert K. Merton, has played a ...
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Puritanism and the rise of modern science : the Merton thesis / edited, with an introduction by I. Bernard Cohen with the assistance of K.E. Duffin and Stuart Strickland

Motive forces of the new science (1938) / Robert K. Merton -- Mertonian theses (1974) / Charles C. Gillispie -- Influence of religion on the development of the sciences (1885) / Alphonse de Candolle - ...
The Scientist

Robert K. Merton dies

Robert King Merton, whose groundbreaking work on the psychosocial forces that shape science careers established the sociology of science as a scientific discipline, died Feb. 23 at the age of 92. Most ...
The Forward

Wizardly Weaver Who Invented ‘Role Models’

The American sociologist Robert K. Merton, who died in 2003 at age 92, was a longtime fixture at Columbia University, where he invented such now-standard terms as “role model” and “self-fulfilling ...
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Varieties of political expression in sociology. Essays by: Robert K. Merton [and others] With an introd. by Tom Bottomore and an epilogue by E. Digby Baltzell

"An American journal of sociology publication." Appeared also as v. 78, no. 1 (July 1972) of the American journal of sociology. Merton, R. K. Insiders and outsiders: a chapter in the sociology of ...