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  | | The Sociology of Science(Updated) Theoretical and Empirical Investigations by Robert K. Merton, Norman W. Storer Paperback, 605 Pages, Published 1979 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52092-6, ISBN: 0-226-52092-7 ""The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. . . . There are very few other books in sociology . . . with such meticulous scholarship, or so elegant a style. This collection of papers is, and is likely to remain for a long time, on ..." |
 | | Modern Sociology Ser. Sociological Traditions from Generation to Generation : Glimpses of the American Experience by Robert K. Merton, Dr Matilda White Riley Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 1980 by Ablex Publishing Corporation ISBN-13: 978-0-89391-034-1, ISBN: 0-89391-034-1 "This book provides insight into the lives and contributions of eigth master sociologists as perceived by their outstanding students. It provides perspectives on evolving cognitive traditions and the oral transmission of knowledge, the emergence of new ideas, the role of continuity and discontinuity in the developments of science, and the relations of these to social change." |
 | | International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Social Science Quotations/Black by Macmillan Publishing, David L. Sills, Robert K. Merton, Robert King Merton Hardcover, 437 Pages, Published 1998 by Macmillan Library Reference ISBN-13: 978-0-02-928751-4, ISBN: 0-02-928751-0 "Provides entries for terms, phrases, people, and other aspects of the social sciences, and includes quotations from individuals in various fields" |
 | | Sociology, a Brief but Critical Introduction(2nd Edition) by Anthony Giddens, Robert K. Merton, Merton Giddens Paperback, 179 Pages, Published 1987 by Harcourt College Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-15-582001-2, ISBN: 0-15-582001-X "Sociology: A Brief but Critical Introduction offers a lively, discursive and jargon-free introduction to sociology, accessible to the lay reader as well as to the student. It incorporates discussion of recent developments in both social theory and empirical social research - developments to which Giddens has directly contributed." |
 | | Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact(Updated) by Ludwik Fleck, Frederick Bradley, Thaddeus J. Trenn, Robert K. Merton, Thomas S. Kuhn Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 1981 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25325-1, ISBN: 0-226-25325-2 "Originally published in German in 1935, this monograph anticipated solutions to problems of scientific progress, the truth of scientific fact and the role of error in science now associated with the work of Thomas Kuhn and others. Arguing that every scientific concept and theory including his own is culturally conditioned, Fleck was appreciably ahead of his time. And as Kuhn observes in his foreword, "Though much has occurred since its ..." |
 | | The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science by Robert K. Merton, Elinor Barber 352 Pages, Published 2011 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4152-3, ISBN: 1-4008-4152-6 "The main text goes back untouched to its original form as written by the late Robert K. Merton and Elinor Barber in 1958. Editing required the reconstruction of several passages lost in time-worn pages, the back-translation of several other difficult-to-read passages from the Italian edition, and the translation of several new footnotes added to the Italian translation by Robert K. Merton. Professor Merton died in February 2003, ju ..." |
 | | Focused Interview by Robert K. Merton 200 Pages, Published 2008 by Simon And Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0582-5, ISBN: 1-4391-0582-0 "A rticles Baker, Philip N. “Focus group interviewing: The real constituency." journal of Data Collection (1985), 25:14-23. Basch, Philip N. “Focus group interview: An underutilized research technique for improving theory and practice in health education.” Health Education Quarterly (1987) , 14:411-448. Beck, Leif C., \/V. L. Trombetta, and S. Share. “Using focus group sessions before decisions are made.” North Carolina Medical jour ..." |
 | | Social Science Quotations(1st Edition) Who Said What, When, and Where by David L. Sills, Robert King Merton, Robert K. Merton, Transaction Publishers Paperback, 437 Pages, Published 2000 by Transaction Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7658-0720-5, ISBN: 0-7658-0720-3 "Social Science Quotations has been prepared to meet an evident, unmet need in the literature of the social sciences. Writings on the lives and theories of individual social scientists abound, but there has been no fully documented collection of memorable quotations from the social sciences as a whole. The frequent use of quotations in scientific as well as literary writings that are mere summaries or paraphrases typically fail to captur ..." |
 | | The Urban Experience(2nd Edition) by Claude S. Fischer, Robert K. Merton Paperback, 371 Pages, Published 1984 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-593498-6, ISBN: 0-15-593498-8 "This book would be of interest to sociologists interested in urbanization and/or theory development. Fischer draws on numerous empirical studies to presesnt a new theory of urban life that synthesizes two contradictory theories. Unlike the deterministic perspective of Simmel, Wirth, and Parks, Fischer argues that urbanization does not destroy primary group ties. Unlike compositional theorists like Gans, Fischer argues that empirical evi ..." |
 | | Introduction to Sociology by Lewis A. Coser, Robert K. Merton, Buford Rhea, Patricia A. Steffan, Steven L. Nock Hardcover, 540 Pages, Published 1983 by Thomson Learning ISBN-13: 978-0-15-545910-6, ISBN: 0-15-545910-4 |
 | | The Macmillan Book of Social Science Quotations(Reprint) Who Said What, When, and Where by David L. Sills, Robert K. Merton Paperback, 458 Pages, Published 1992 by Macmillan Publishing Company. ISBN-13: 978-0-02-897397-5, ISBN: 0-02-897397-6 "A dazzling, momentous achievement..Everything important that has been said in the social science will be found here. Comprehensive, authoritative, and thought-provoking, this is an invaluable reference work for the curious reader as well as for the specialist. As an economic man I cheer when Social Science Quotations comes out in paperback. Now both home and office can afford a copy. Just another illustration that demand is elastic with ..." |
 | | Varieties of Political Expression in Sociology(1st Edition) by Robert King Merton, Seymour Martin Lipset, Irving L. Horowitz, Everett C. Ladd, Howard S. Becker, Tom Bottomore, C. Arnold Anderson, Et Al., Anderson Epilogue Paperback, 231 Pages, Published 1972 by University Of Chicago Press, Chicago And London ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52087-2, ISBN: 0-226-52087-0 |
 | | Sociological Traditions From Generation to Generation Glimpses of the American Experience (Modern Sociology) by Robert K. Merton, Dr Matilda White Riley Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 1980 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-89391-061-7, ISBN: 0-89391-061-9 "This book provides insight into the lives and contributions of eigth master sociologists as perceived by their outstanding students. It provides perspectives on evolving cognitive traditions and the oral transmission of knowledge, the emergence of new ideas, the role of continuity and discontinuity in the developments of science, and the relations of these to social change." |
 | | Contemporary Social Problems(4th Edition) by Robert K. Merton, Robert A. Nisbet, Robert King Merton Hardcover, 793 Pages, Published 1976 by Harcourt College Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-15-513793-6, ISBN: 0-15-513793-X "Robert King Merton, Robert A. Nisbet ... Often they are complementary, not contradictory.34 And so it is with sociological theories of deviance. ... The theory of anomie-and-opportunity-structures, set forth by Robert K. Merton, states that rates of various kinds of deviant behavior (not merely crime) are highest where people ..." |
 | | On the Shoulders of Giants - A Shandean Postscript(1st Edition) by Robert K. Merton, Catherine D. Bowen Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 1965 by Harbinger ISBN-13: 978-0-15-668781-2, ISBN: 0-15-668781-X "Book by Merton, Robert K." |
 | | Contemporary social problems(3rd Edition) by Robert King Merton, Editor-Robert Nisbet, Robert K. Merton Hardcover, 881 Pages, Published 1971 by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich ISBN-13: 978-0-15-513790-5, ISBN: 0-15-513790-5 |
 | | Violence(1st Edition) Patterns, Causes, and Public Policy by Margaret A. Zahn, Rita J. Sagi, Robert King Merton, Neil Alan Weiner, Susan A. Weiner, Zhan Weiner Paperback, 478 Pages, Published 1990 by Wadsworth Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-15-594915-7, ISBN: 0-15-594915-2 |
 | | The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul, John Wilkinson, Robert K. Merton Paperback, 449 Pages, Published 1967 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-394-70390-9, ISBN: 0-394-70390-1 "As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ..." |
 | | Human Arrangements(2nd Edition) An Introduction to Sociology by Allan G. Johnson, Robert K. Merton Hardcover, 686 Pages, Published 1988 by Harcourt College Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-15-539769-9, ISBN: 0-15-539769-9 |
 | | Puritanism & Rise Of Science(1st Edition) by Stuart Strickland, I. Bernard Cohen, K. E. Duffin, Robert K. Merton Paperback, 402 Pages, Published 1990 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-1530-4, ISBN: 0-8135-1530-0 "Fifty years ago, Robert K. Merton published 'Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England,' demonstrating quantitatively that Puritans and other ascetic Protestants were disproportionately well represented among the new scientific community of England. He argued that, for these scientists, the Puritan ethic 'was at once a direct expression of dominant values and an independent source of new motivation.' The Merton Thes ..." |
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