Robert K. Merton and Contemporary Sociology

ISBN-13: 9781138514256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str.

Carlo Mongardini

Opis

This volume offers scholars of sociology and allied areas the fruits of an international conference on the contributions of the eminent Robert K

Spis treści

Foreword, Foreword to the American Edition, Preface, Part 1: Robert K. Merton’s Place in Contemporary Sociological Thought Introduction, 1. Robert K. Merton’s Structural Analysis: The Design of Modem Sociology, 2. Robert K. Merton: The Relation between Theory and Research, 3. Merton and the Sociology of Science in Europe, 4. The Informative-Formative Reception of Robert K. Merton’s Work in Italy, Part 2: Concepts of Sociological Analysis, 5. Sociological Ambivalence in the Thought of R.K. Merton, 6. Robert K. Merton and Contemporary Sociology The Florentine Case of the “Man-Ape”, 7. Accumulation of Advantage and Disadvantage: The Theory and Its Intellectual Biography, 8. Robert K. Merton’s Four Concepts of Anomie, 9. The Unanticipated Consequences of Action: Sociological and Ethical Aspects, 10. Some Reflections on Latent Functions, 11. Patterns of Manifest and Latent Influence: A Double Case Study of Influences on and from Robert K. Merton, Part 3: Short Papers, 12. Conditioning or Conditionings? Revisiting an Old Criticism of Mannheim by Merton, 13. Some Thoughts on Two Works by Robert K. Merton, 14. Robert K. Merton, the Teacher: Episodic Recollections by an Enthusiastic Apprentice, 15. Notes towards an Analysis of the Relationship between Ambivalence and Rationality, 16. Robert K. Merton for an “Open Society” ? Or, a Concept of Society Beyond Functionalism, 17. Robert K. Merton’s Contribution to Sociological Studies of Time, 18. Serendipity in the Work of Robert K. Merton, 19. R.K. Merton: The Model of Theory-Empirical Research Circularity as a Way Out of the Micro-Macro Dichotomy, 20. Sztompka’s Analysis of Merton’s Writings: A Description and Some Criticisms, Afterword, Contributors, Index of Names

O autorze

Carlo Mongardini