• Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 25, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of...
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  • satisfaction from doing their work and therefore feeling alienated. Robert K. Merton does not directly define self-estrangement in his Theory of Deviancy...
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    changing dynamics in financial institutions. Merton was born in New York City to sociologist Robert K. Merton, who was of Jewish descent, and Suzanne Carhart...
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  • The Merton thesis is an argument about the nature of early experimental science proposed by Robert K. Merton. Similar to Max Weber's famous claim on the...
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  • with Robert K. Merton. Both Merton and Lazarsfeld were new faculty members in Columbia University's Department of Sociology appointed in 1941. Merton was...
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  • Middle-range theory (sociology) (category Robert K. Merton)
    Middle-range theory, developed by Robert K. Merton, is an approach to sociological theorizing aimed at integrating theory and empirical research. It is...
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    sociologist Robert K. Merton expanded on Weber's theories of bureaucracy in his work Social Theory and Social Structure, published in 1957. While Merton agreed...
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  • Robert Merton may refer to: Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist Robert C. Merton (born 1944), American economist, Nobel Laureate, MIT professor...
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  • Social Theory and Social Structure (category Robert K. Merton)
    Social Structure (STSS) was a landmark publication in sociology by Robert K. Merton. It has been translated into close to 20 languages and is one of the...
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    This was followed in 1937 by a much-cited survey of the subject by Robert K. Merton, the American sociologist, 'The sociology of knowledge'. With the dominance...
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  • Stigler attributed the discovery of Stigler's law to sociologist Robert K. Merton, from whom Stigler stole credit so that it would be an example of the...
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  • richer and the poor get poorer". The term was coined by sociologists Robert K. Merton and Harriet Zuckerman in 1968 and takes its name from a loose interpretation...
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  • In 1942, Robert K. Merton described four aspects of science that later came to be called Mertonian norms: "four sets of institutional imperatives taken...
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    Unintended consequences (category Robert K. Merton)
    The term was popularized in the 20th century by American sociologist Robert K. Merton. Unintended consequences can be grouped into three types: Unexpected...
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    priority areas through its Visiting Researchers program. In 1990, Robert K. Merton became the first Foundation Scholar at Russell Sage, recognizing his...
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  • is the various kinds of relevant audiences for a particular role. Robert K. Merton describes "role set" as the "complement of social relationships in...
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    in the Western Pacific. It was later modified for sociology by Robert K. Merton. Merton appeared interested in sharpening the conceptual tools to be employed...
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  • Role model (category Robert K. Merton)
    by younger people. The term role model is credited to sociologist Robert K. Merton, who hypothesized that individuals compare themselves with reference...
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    techniques for analysing them. This approach lends itself to what Robert K. Merton called middle-range theory: abstract statements that generalize from...
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    analyses. Prominent sociological theorists include Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, Randall Collins, James Samuel Coleman, Peter Blau, Niklas Luhmann...
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    "status set" was coined by Robert K. Merton in 1957. He made a clear distinction between a "role set" and a "status set". Merton stated that status set is...
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    was also awarded the Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology's Robert K. Merton award in 1992 for her work Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature...
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  • Self-fulfilling prophecy (category Robert K. Merton)
    they are real in their consequences." Another American sociologist, Robert K. Merton, continued the research, and is credited with coining the term "self-fulfilling...
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  • include, Howard S. Becker, Richard Cloward, Erving Goffman, David Matza, Robert K. Merton, Lloyd Ohlin and Frances Fox Piven. The Chicago school is best known...
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  • remarked the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery". Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries...
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    for comparison and evaluation of group and personal characteristics. Robert K. Merton hypothesized that individuals compare themselves with reference groups...
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  • Sciences was first published in 1968 and was edited by David L. Sills and Robert K. Merton. It contains seventeen volumes and thousands of entries written by...
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    been advanced by Robert King Merton (1938), Albert K. Cohen (1955), Richard Cloward, Lloyd Ohlin (1960), Neil Smelser (1963), Robert Agnew (1992), Steven...
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  • time. Criticize functionalists like Talcott Parsons, and his student Robert K. Merton, who in turn had been a teacher of Barney Glaser. Demonstrate the possibility...
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  • functionalist theory, it is also associated with Talcott Parsons and Robert K. Merton. The hypothesis is an attempted explanation of social stratification...
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