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Concepts and the social order : Robert K. Merton and the future of sociology /

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 a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Elkana, Yehuda, 1934-2012 (Editor ), Szigeti, András (Editor ), Lissauer, György (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest, Hungary ; New York, N.Y. : Central European University Press, ©2011.
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  • 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.