Robert K Merton & ContempRobert King Merton, Carlo Mongardini, Simonetta Tabboni Transaction Publishers - 330 oldal 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. |
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Brahms Johannes | 18 |
The Relation between Theory | 45 |
Calvin 295 | 51 |
Merton and the Sociology of Science in Europe | 61 |
Cancian Francesca 231 238 | 74 |
The InformativeFormative Reception of Robert | 77 |
Cannon Walter 313 | 82 |
Robert K Mertons Four Concepts of Anomie | 163 |
Some Reflections on Latent Functions | 187 |
Conditioning or Conditionings? Revisiting | 213 |
Some Thoughts on Two Works by Robert K Merton | 221 |
Episodic Recollections | 239 |
Notes towards an Analysis of the Relationship between | 247 |
Robert K Mertons Contribution to Sociological | 257 |
Serendipity in the Work of Robert K Merton | 273 |
Sociological Ambivalence in the Thought of R K Merton | 101 |
Chapin F Stuart 185 236 | 122 |
Christie Richard 241 | 149 |
Coser Rose Laub 258 270 | 159 |
Elster Jon 205 | 296 |
Faia Michael A 159 | 307 |
Contributors | 319 |
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27. oldal - The reason why religion is necessary is apparently to be found in the fact that human society achieves its unity primarily through the possession by its members of certain ultimate values and ends in common.
261. oldal - Between the world of the senses and appetities on the one hand, and that of reason and morals on the other, the distance is so considerable that the second would seem to have been able to add itself to the first only by a creative act. But attributing to society this preponderating role in the genesis of our nature is not denying this creation; for society has a creative power which no other observable being can equal.
170. oldal - Anomie is then conceived as a breakdown in the cultural structure, occurring particularly when there is an acute disjunction between the cultural norms and goals and the socially structured capacities of members of the group to act in accord with them...
37. oldal - To concentrate solely on special theories is to run the risk of emerging with ad hoc, unrelated speculations consistent with a limited range of observations and inconsistent among themselves. To concentrate solely on the master conceptual scheme for deriving all sociological theory is to run the risk of producing twentieth-century equivalents of the large philosophical systems of the past, with all their suggestiveness, all their architectonic splendor and all their scientific sterility.
104. oldal - ... social position) or to a set of statuses in a society. In its most restricted sense. sociological ambivalence refers to incompatible normative expectations incorporated in a single role of a single social status ... In both the most extended and the most restricted sense, the ambivalence is located in the social definition of roles and statuses, not in the feeling-state of one or another type of personality.
169. oldal - A second polar type is found in groups where activities originally conceived as instrumental are transmuted into ends in themselves.
169. oldal - It is, indeed, my central hypothesis that aberrant behavior may be regarded sociologically as a symptom of dissociation between culturally prescribed aspirations and socially structured avenues for realizing these aspirations.
132. oldal - Matthew effect consists of the accruing of greater increments of recognition for particular scientific contributions to scientists of considerable repute and the withholding of such recognition from scientists who have not yet made their mark.