Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Chapter One Introduction: Merton’s Self-Exemplifying Classical Sociological Contributions
- Chapter Two Skeptical Faith, Left Politics, and the Making of Young Robert K. Merton
- Chapter Three Theorist’s Progress: Young Robert K. Merton, 1941–1949
- Chapter Four Taking a Seminar with Merton
- Chapter Five The Development of Mertonian Status-and-Role Theory
- Chapter Six Theory as an Option or Theory as a Must? The Bearing of Methodological Choices on the Role of Sociological Theory
- Chapter Seven “Interviews of a Special Type”: Robert K. Merton and Codification of the Focused Interview
- Chapter Eight Science as a Culture
- Chapter Nine “Providing Puzzles”: Science as Norms and Values
- Chapter Ten A Mertonian Breviary for Cultural Sociologists
- Chapter Eleven The Unpublished Robert K Merton
- Author Biographies
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Chapter One Introduction: Merton’s Self-Exemplifying Classical Sociological Contributions
- Chapter Two Skeptical Faith, Left Politics, and the Making of Young Robert K. Merton
- Chapter Three Theorist’s Progress: Young Robert K. Merton, 1941–1949
- Chapter Four Taking a Seminar with Merton
- Chapter Five The Development of Mertonian Status-and-Role Theory
- Chapter Six Theory as an Option or Theory as a Must? The Bearing of Methodological Choices on the Role of Sociological Theory
- Chapter Seven “Interviews of a Special Type”: Robert K. Merton and Codification of the Focused Interview
- Chapter Eight Science as a Culture
- Chapter Nine “Providing Puzzles”: Science as Norms and Values
- Chapter Ten A Mertonian Breviary for Cultural Sociologists
- Chapter Eleven The Unpublished Robert K Merton
- Author Biographies
- Index
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- The Anthem Companion to Robert K. Merton , pp. 241 - 245Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2022