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Robert K. Merton : Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science.

Table of Contents: “…Sampson -- The contributions of Robert K. Merton to culture theory / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein -- Culture and uncertainty / Viviana A. …”
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Social theory and social structure by Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003

Reader in bureaucracy

Science, technology & society in seventeenth century England by Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003

On social structure and science by Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003

Table of Contents: “…Publications by and about Robert K. Merton: A Select Bibliography…”
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The crowd ; a study of the popular-mind by Le Bon, Gustave, 1841-1931

On the shoulders of giants ; a Shandean postscript by Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003

The travels and adventures of serendipity : a study in sociological semantics and the sociology of science by Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003

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Mass persuasion ; the social psychology of a war bond drive by Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003

Studies in the scope and method of "The American soldier," by Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003

The public intellectual : between philosophy and politics

Table of Contents: “…The Professional Scholar as Public Intellectual: Reflections Prompted by Karl Mannheim, Robert K. Merton, and C. Wright Mills /…”
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Concepts and the Social Order : Robert K. Morton and the Future of Sociology. by Elkana, Yehuda

Table of Contents: “…The Paradoxes of Robert K. Merton: Fragmentary Reflections -- 2. Looking for Shoulders to Stand on, or for a Paradigm for the Sociology of Science -- 3. …”
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Contemporary sociological thinkers and theories by Segre, Sandro

Table of Contents: “…The neofunctionalism of Jeffrey Alexander -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Ethnomethodology -- Exchange theory -- Michel Foucault -- Anthony Giddens -- Erving Goffman -- Jürgen Habermas -- Niklas Luhmann -- Robert K. Merton -- Network and social capital theory -- Talcott Parsons -- Rational choice theory -- The phenomenological perspective of Alfred Schutz -- Structuralism in sociology and other social sciences -- Symbolic interactionism.…”
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Theory in Action. by Sohlberg, Peter

Table of Contents: “…9: Theorizing through Comparative Case Studies10: Explanatory Practices in Sociology: An Overview; 11: A Thick Description of Robert K. Merton's Middle Range Theory -- Manifest Properties and Latent Ambivalence; Index.…”
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The communication of ideas : a series of addresses

Table of Contents: “…Lasswell -- Speech and personality / Wendell Johnson -- The psychologist's contribution to the communication of ideas / Irving Lorge -- Mass communication, popular taste and organized social action / Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Robert K. Merton -- Communication and the arts / Lennox Grey --…”

Deviance across cultures by Heiner, Robert, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Erikson -- Social structure and anomie / Robert K. Merton -- Techniques of neutralization : A theory of delinquency / Gresham M. …”
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Soziologische Theorien kompakt. by Martin Endrè

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Michael Polanyi and His Generation : Origins of the Social Construction of Science. by Nye, Mary Jo

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The political economy of the World Bank : the early years by Alacevich, Michele

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments --1: World Bank And Development -- Historical context -- Methodological framework -- Pars Destruens -- Pars Construens -- 2 Currie Mission In Colombia, 1949-1953 -- Importance of the Colombia Mission for the Switch from Reconstruction to Development -- End of the Reconstruction Phase -- Initial contacts between the Colombian Government and the IBRD -- Collaboration between Lauchlin Currie and the IBRD -- Mission collects information -- Putting the team together -- First IBRD general survey mission, Colombia 1949 -- Currie Mission Report -- Comite de Desarrollo Economico (1950-1951) and the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1954) -- Evolution of the relationship between Currie and the World Bank -- Tensions within the Comite de Desarrollo Economico -- Difficult beginning of the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1953) -- End of the affair -- 3 Economic Development In Theory And Practice -- Development approaches: balanced versus unbalanced growth -- Balanced growth -- Unbalanced growth -- Development approaches: program loans versus project loans -- Program loans -- Project loans -- Debate on development reverberates inside the IBRD -- Conflicting approaches: program versus project -- Program versus project: the bank's changing attitude -- Autobiographical notes -- Currie versus Hirschman: monetary and fiscal policy -- Analyzing the situation -- Hypotheses -- Clash -- Currie versus Hirschman: iron and steel production -- Analysis of the Currie Mission -- Interests at odds -- Informe de la Mision Parael Comite and the flesher solution -- Steel and development: reasons for disagreement -- Changing alliances --Agreements and disagreements -- Sociological interpretation of the development economics debate: Robert K Merton and the "Kindle Cole" principle -- 4: At The Root Of The Bank's Policy Advice -- Urban development plan for Barranquilla -- Request for IBRD financing -- Why did the bank refuse financing? …”
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Interracialism : black-white intermarriage in American history, literature, and law

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Rethinking the color line : readings in race and ethnicity

Table of Contents: “…Race prejudice as a sense of group position / Herbert Blumer -- Discrimination and the American creed / Robert K. Merton -- Race and civil rights pre-September 11, 2001: the targeting of Arabs and Muslims / Susan M. …”
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Knowledge matters : the public mission of the research university

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Rethinking the color line : readings in race and ethnicity

Table of Contents: “…Prejudice, discrimination and racism -- Race prejudice as a sense of group position / Herbert Blumer -- Race and gender discrimination: contemporary trends / James Sterba -- Discrimination and the American creed / Robert K. Merton -- How does it feel to be a problem? Being young and Arab in America / Moustafa Bayoumi -- The possessive investment in whiteness: racialized social democracy / George Lipsitz -- Laissez-faire racism, racial inequality, and the role of the social sciences / Lawrence D. …”