Robert K. Merton : consensus and controversy
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Robert K. Merton : consensus and controversy
(Consensus and controversy, . Falmer sociology series ; 1)
Falmer Press, c1990
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Bibliography: p. 477-497
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a volume in a series on leading contemporary sociologists which is devoted to Robert Merton, his work and the influence he has had on contemporary sociological thinking, a set of 21 essays by different contributors on the main themes of his work and a concluding essay written by Merton himself. Merton's essay treats this volume as a case in point to prove what he has always regarded as a basic process in science and scholarship, namely, "organized scepticism". The book's final section contains biographical details of the the contributors, an outline intellectual biography of Merton and a consolidated bibliography.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Editorial introduction: Robert K. Merton - consensus and controversy, Jon Clark et al
- general introduction: Robert Merton as sociologist, Jon Clark
- Robert Merton as teacher, James S. Coleman
- polished pebbles, pretty shells - an appreciation of OTSOG, Stephen Jay Gould. Part 2 Consensus and controversy: systematic social theory - R.K. Merton's theoretical systems - an overview, Piotr Sztompka
- Merton's systematic theory, Robert Bierstedt
- "interchange" - Sztompka replies to Bierstedt - Bierstedt replies to Sztompka
- structural analysis - social structure in the work of Robert Merton, Arthur Stinchcombe
- R.K. Merton on structural analysis, Anthony Giddens
- "interchange" - Stinchcombe replies to Giddens - Giddens replies to Sitnchcombe
- unanticipated and unintended consequences-latent functions and dysfunctions - the two facets of the unintended consequences paradigm, Raymond Boudon
- Merton's functionalism and the unintended consequences of action, Jon Elster
- "interchange" - Boudin replies to Elster
- structural constraints and opportunities, Merton's contribution to general theory, Peter M.Blau
- status-sets and role-sets - reflections on Merton's role-set theory, Rose Laub Coser
- role-sets and status-sets, Richard A.Hilbert
- "interchange" - Coser replies to Hilbert - Hilbert replies to Coser
- the dysfunctions of bureaucracies
- the dysfunctions of bureacracies - Merton's work in organizational sociology, Charles Crothers
- Merton's theory of anomie - Merton's instrumental theory of anomie, Marco Orru
- Merton in search of anomie, Phillippe Besnard
- "interchange" - Orru replies to Basnard - Basnard replies to Orru
- the self-fulfilling prophecy - the self-fulfilling prophecy in the work of Robert Merton, Lee S.Shulman and Sam Wineburg
- sociology of science - Robert K. Merton's sociology of science, Nico Stehr
- animadversiones in Merton, Pierre Bordieu
- "interchange" - Bordieu replies to Stehr
- the "Merton Thesis" - puritanism and science - some documentary reflections on the dissemination and reception of the "Merton Thesis", I. Bernard Cohen
- puritanism and science - the "Merton Thesis" after, Piyo Rattansi
- infant giants are not pygmies - the "Merton Thesis" and the sociology of science, A. Rupert Hall
- the interplay of social theory and empirical research, Hubert M. Blalock Jr
- the interplay of general sociological theory and empirical research, Mark Gould
- "interchange" - Blalock replies to Gould - Gould replies to Blalock
- the sociology of time - Robert K. Merton's contribution to sociological studies of time, Simonetta Tabboni. Part 3 Concluding comment - consensus and controversy as an example of organized scepticism, Robert K. Merton.
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