Concepts and the Social Order

by Elkana, Yehuda; Szigeti, Andras; Lissauer, Gyorgy

• ISBN13: 9786155053412
• ISBN10: 6155053413
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-01
• Publisher: Central European University Pr

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables	p. vii
Book Concept and Preface	p. ix
Note to Sound and Sculpture	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Paradoxes of Robert K. Merton: Fragmentary Reflections	p. 9
Looking for Shoulders to Stand on, or for a Paradigm for the Sociology of Science	p. 19
R. K. Merton in France: Foucault, Bourdieu, Latour and the Invention of Mainstream Sociology in Paris	p. 29
Merton in South Asia: The Question of Religion and the Modernity of Science	p. 45
The Contribution of Robert K. Merton's Key Concepts to the Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Society	p. 61
A Tribute to Robert Merton: Protestant and Catholic Ethics Revisited	p. 77
The Concept of Ambivalence in the Relationship between Science and Society	p. 87
Re-evaluating the Place of Science in Evaluating Modernity	p. 101
Democracy and the Normative Structure of Science after Modernity	p. 111
The Matthew Effect Writ Large and Larger: A Study in Sociological Semantics	p. 121
Repetition with Variation: A Mertonian Inquiry into a Lost Mertonian Concept	p. 165
Robert K. Merton and the Tansformation of Sociology of Knowledge and Possible New Directions	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 203
List of Contributors	p. 231
Index	p. 233
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