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