Robert K. Merton -

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Résumé :
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Biographie:
Craig Calhoun is president of the Berggruen Institute. He was previously director and president of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he remains Centennial Professor.

Sommaire:
Preface
Introduction: On Merton's Legacy and Contemporary Sociology, by Craig Calhoun, Social Science Research Council and New York University
1. Reflections on a Common Theme: Establishing the Phenomenon, Adumbration, and Ideal Types, by Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
2. Mechanisms of the Middle Range, by Charles Tilly, Columbia University
3. Eliding the Theory/Research and Basic/Applied Divides: Implications of Merton's Middle Range, by Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University
4. The Contributions of Robert K. Merton to Culture Theory, by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, City University of New York
5. Culture and Uncertainty, by Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University
6. "Paradigm for the Sociology of Science", by Thomas F. Gieryn, Indiana University
7. A Critical Reconsideration of the Ethos and Autonomy of Science, by Aaron L. Panofsky, University of California
8. Merton, Mannheim, and the Sociology of Knowledge, by Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State University
9. The Ethos of Science and the Ethos of Democracy, by Ragnvald Kalleberg, University of Oslo
10. Merton's Sociology of Rhetoric, by Peter Simonson, University of Colorado
11. On Sociological Semantics as an Evolving Research Program, by Harriet Zuckerman, Mellon Foundation
12. How Merton Sociologizes the History of Ideas, by Charles Camic, Northwestern University
List of Contributors
Index