Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 25, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of...

satisfaction from doing their work and therefore feeling alienated. Robert K. Merton does not directly define self-estrangement in his Theory of Deviancy...

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...

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...

with Robert K. Merton. Both Merton and Lazarsfeld were new faculty members in Columbia University's Department of Sociology appointed in 1941. Merton was...

Middle-range theory, developed by Robert K. Merton, is an approach to sociological theorizing aimed at integrating theory and empirical research. It is...

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...

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...

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...

Robert Merton may refer to: Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist Robert C. Merton (born 1944), American economist, Nobel Laureate, MIT professor...

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...

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 the Parable of...

priority areas through its Visiting Researchers program. In 1990, Robert K. Merton became the first Foundation Scholar at Russell Sage, recognizing his...

The term was popularized in the 20th century by American sociologist Robert K. Merton. Unintended consequences can be grouped into three types: Unexpected...

by younger people. The term role model is credited to sociologist Robert K. Merton, who hypothesized that individuals compare themselves with reference...

is the various kinds of relevant audiences for a particular role. Robert K. Merton describes "role set" as the "complement of social relationships in...

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...

techniques for analysing them. This approach lends itself to what Robert K. Merton called middle-range theory: abstract statements that generalize from...

analyses. Prominent sociological theorists include Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, Randall Collins, James Samuel Coleman, Peter Blau, Niklas Luhmann...

they are real in their consequences." Another American sociologist, Robert K. Merton, continued the research, and is credited with coining the term "self-fulfilling...

In 1942, Robert K. Merton described four aspects of science that later came to be called Mertonian norms: "four sets of institutional imperatives taken...

by Robert K. Merton in 1949, although some incorrectly attribute it to Eugene Garfield, whose work contributed to the popularization of Merton's theory...

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...

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...

remarked the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery". Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries...

"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...

Katz. Significant developers of the opinion leader concept have been Robert K. Merton, C. Wright Mills and Bernard Berelson. This theory is one of several...

scientists are awarded authorial credit for their work, the sociologist Robert K. Merton applied the term The Matthew effect of accumulated advantage, in which...

Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social...

Oslo) is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University. He received...