Concepts and the Social Order
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Concepts and the Social Order

Robert K. Merton and the Future of Sociology

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Concepts and the Social Order

Robert K. Merton and the Future of Sociology

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Illustrations and Tables
  6. Book Concept and Preface
  7. Note to Sound and Sculpture
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. The Paradoxes of Robert K. Merton: Fragmentary Reflections
  10. 2. Looking for Shoulders to Stand on, or for a Paradigm for the Sociology of Science
  11. 3. R. K. Merton in France: Foucault, Bourdieu, Latour and the Invention of Mainstream Sociology in Paris
  12. 4. Merton in South Asia: The Question of Religion and the Modernity of Science
  13. 5. The Contribution of Robert K. Merton’s Key Concepts to the Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Society
  14. 6. A Tribute to Robert Merton: Protestant and Catholic Ethics Revisited
  15. The Concept of Ambivalence in the Relationship between Science and Society
  16. Re-evaluating the Place of Science in Evaluating Modernity
  17. Democracy and the Normative Structure of Science after Modernity
  18. The Matthew Effect Writ Large and Larger: A Study in Sociological Semantics
  19. 11. Repetition with Variation: A Mertonian Inquiry into a Lost Mertonian Concept
  20. 12. Robert K. Merton and the Tansformation of Sociology of Knowledge and Possible New Directions
  21. Bibliography
  22. List of Contributors
  23. Index
  24. back cover