Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Tables vii
4. Book Concept and Preface ix
5. Note to Sound and Sculpture xi
6. Introduction 1
7. The Paradoxes of Robert K. Merton: Fragmentary Reflections 9
8. Looking for Shoulders to Stand on, or for a Paradigm for the Sociology of Science 19
9. R. K. Merton in France: Foucault, Bourdieu, Latour and the Invention of Mainstream Sociology in Paris 29
10. Merton in South Asia: The Question of Religion and the Modernity of Science 45
11. The Contribution of Robert K. Merton’s Key Concepts to the Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Society 61
12. A Tribute to Robert Merton: Protestant and Catholic Ethics Revisited 77
13. The Concept of Ambivalence in the Relationship between Science and Society 87
14. Re-evaluating the Place of Science in Evaluating Modernity 101
15. Democracy and the Normative Structure of Science after Modernity 111
16. The Matthew Effect Writ Large and Larger: A Study in Sociological Semantics 121
17. Repetition with Variation: A Mertonian Inquiry into a Lost Mertonian Concept 165
18. Robert K. Merton and the Transformation of Sociology of Knowledge and Possible New Directions 189
19. Bibliography 203
20. List of Contributors 231
21. Index 233