352 Pages
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Routledge
350 Pages
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Routledge
330 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume offers scholars of sociology and allied areas the fruits of an international conference on the contributions of the eminent Robert K. Merton. The assessment, as good in content as well as in participants, took place in Amalfi, Italy, with the participation of Merton himself and under the auspices of the Italian Sociology Association. Carlo Mongardini aptly summarizes the unique impact... Read more
Foreword, Foreword to the American Edition, Preface, Part 1: Robert K. Merton’s Place in Contemporary Sociological Thought Introduction, 1. Robert K. Merton’s Structural Analysis: The Design of Modem Sociology, 2. Robert K. Merton: The Relation between Theory and Research, 3. Merton and the Sociology of Science in Europe, 4. The Informative-Formative Reception of Robert K. Merton’s Work in Italy, Part 2: Concepts of Sociological Analysis, 5. Sociological Ambivalence in the Thought of R.K. Merton, 6. Robert K. Merton and Contemporary Sociology The Florentine Case of the “Man-Ape”, 7. Accumulation of Advantage and Disadvantage: The Theory and Its Intellectual Biography, 8. Robert K. Merton’s Four Concepts of Anomie, 9. The Unanticipated Consequences of Action: Sociological and Ethical Aspects, 10. Some Reflections on Latent Functions, 11. Patterns of Manifest and Latent Influence: A Double Case Study of Influences on and from Robert K. Merton, Part 3: Short Papers, 12. Conditioning or Conditionings? Revisiting an Old Criticism of Mannheim by Merton, 13. Some Thoughts on Two Works by Robert K. Merton, 14. Robert K. Merton, the Teacher: Episodic Recollections by an Enthusiastic Apprentice, 15. Notes towards an Analysis of the Relationship between Ambivalence and Rationality, 16. Robert K. Merton for an “Open Society” ? Or, a Concept of Society Beyond Functionalism, 17. Robert K. Merton’s Contribution to Sociological Studies of Time, 18. Serendipity in the Work of Robert K. Merton, 19. R.K. Merton: The Model of Theory-Empirical Research Circularity as a Way Out of the Micro-Macro Dichotomy, 20. Sztompka’s Analysis of Merton’s Writings: A Description and Some Criticisms, Afterword, Contributors, Index of Names
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Carlo Mongardini
