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1 online resource |
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Anthem companions to sociology |
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Anthem companions to sociology.
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| Contents |
<P>Introduction: Merton's Self-Exemplifying Classical Sociological Contributions, Charles Crothers, Lorenzo Sabetta and Lawrence Stern; Chapter 1 Skeptical Faith, Left Politics, and the Making of Young Robert K. Merton, Peter Simonson; Chapter 2 Theorist's Progress: Young Robert K. Merton, 1941-1949, Kenneth Fox; Chapter 3 Taking a Seminar with Merton, Richard Swedberg; Chapter 4 The Development of Mertonian Status-and-Role Theory, Charles Crothers; Chapter Theory as an Option or Theory as a Must? The Bearing of Methodological Choices on the Role of Sociological Theory, Antonio Fasanella and Lorenzo Sabetta; Chapter 6 "Interviews of a Special Type": Robert K. Merton and Codification of the Focused Interview, Raymond M. Lee; Chapter 7; Science as a Culture, Chapter 9 "Providing Puzzles": Science as Norms and Values, Michel Dubois; Chapter 10 A Mertonian Breviary for Cultural Sociologists, Christian Fleck; Chapter 11 The Unpublished Robert K Merton, Harriet Zuckerman.<u></u> </p> |
| Summary |
Robert K. Merton (RKM) was an important figure in the mid-nineteenth development of sociology in terms of social theory, methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies - the sociologies of science, media, professions and bureaucracy. This book reveals the different components of RKM's work and how each relates to the other |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003
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| SUBJECT |
Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003 fast |
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Sociologists -- United States.
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Sociology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Sociologists
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Sociology
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Crothers, C., editor
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Sabetta, Lorenzo, editor
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| ISBN |
1839981180 |
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9781839981173 |
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1839981172 |
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9781839981180 |
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