Concepts and the Social Order-Robert K. Merton and the Future of Sociology

Cover......Page 1
Title page\n......Page 4
Copyright page\n......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations and Tables......Page 8
Book Concept and Preface......Page 10
Note to Sound and Sculpture......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1. The Paradoxes of Robert K. Merton: Fragmentary Reflections......Page 22
2. Looking for Shoulders to Stand on, or for a Paradigm for the Sociology of Science......Page 32
3. R. K. Merton in France: Foucault, Bourdieu, Latour and the Invention of Mainstream Sociology in Paris......Page 42
4. Merton in South Asia: The Question of Religion and the Modernity of Science......Page 58
5. The Contribution of Robert K. Merton’s Key Concepts to the Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Society......Page 74
6. A Tribute to Robert Merton: Protestant and Catholic Ethics Revisited......Page 90
7. The Concept of Ambivalence in the Relationship between Science and Society......Page 100
8. Re-evaluating the Place of Science in Evaluating Modernity......Page 114
9. Democracy and the Normative Structure of Science after Modernity......Page 124
10. The Matthew Effect Writ Large and Larger: A Study in Sociological Semantics......Page 134
11. Repetition with Variation: A Mertonian Inquiry into a Lost Mertonian Concept......Page 178
12. Robert K. Merton and the Tansformation of Sociology of Knowledge and Possible New Directions......Page 202
Bibliography......Page 216
List of Contributors......Page 244
Index......Page 246