Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time. A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contributions have become ...

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 ...

With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Using as ...

Tracing the word "serendipity" from its 1754 coinage into the 20th century, this work chronicles along the way much of what we now call the natural and social sciences. It ...

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

This fascinating study in the sociology of science explores the way scientists conduct, and draw conclusions from, their experiments. The book is organized around three case ...

Science as Practice and Cultureexplores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying ...