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1) Merton, Robert King. The Columbia Encyclopedia,
...Merton, Robert King, 1910-, American sociologist, b. Philadelphia as Meyer Schkolnick, grad. Temple Univ. (A.B., 1931) and Harvard (M.A., 1932; Ph.D., 1936). He has...2) anomie. The Columbia Encyclopedia
...The importance of anomie as a cause of deviant behavior received further elaboration by Robert K. Merton....3) sociology. The Columbia Encyclopedia
...Wright Mills. Structural-functional theory, developed by Talcott Parsons and advanced by Robert Merton, assumes that large social systems are characterized by homeostasis,...
coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "role model"
The Matthew Effect in Science, II: Cumulative advantage and the symbolism of intellectual property" ISIS, 79: 606-623, 1988.
The Thomas Theorem and The Matthew Effect" Social Forces, 74(2) 379-424, December 1995.
CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY SSR Prelim Summary Archive
Merton, Robert K. Social
Theory and Social Structure. New York: Free Press, 1968, ch. 2 ('Sociology
in the Middle Range'), ch. 3 ('Manifest and Latent Functions'), ch. 4 ('The
Bearing of Sociological Theory on Empirical Research'), ch. 5 ('The Bearing of
Empirical Research on Sociological Theory'), ch. 6 ('Social Structure and
Anomie'), ch. 10 ('Contributions to the Theory of Reference Group Behavior') ch.
13 ('Self-Fulfilling Prophecy').
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Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. Edited by
Norman W. Storer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973, ch. 1 ('Paradigm
for the Sociology of Knowledge'), ch. 13 ('The Normative Structure of Science'),
ch. 14 ('Priorities in Scientific Discovery').