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Informationen zum Autor Yehuda Elkana (1934-2012) was historian and philosopher of science, former President and Rector of Central European University (1999-2009). György Lissauer is freelance researcher. András Szigeti works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the project 'What it is to be human?'. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from Central European University in 2008. He served as Rector's Research Fellow and then as Rector's Senior Research Fellow at CEU between 2005-2010. Klappentext Offers a comprehensive perspective on knowledge production in the field of sociology. Moreover, it is a tribute to the scope of Merton's work and the influence Merton has had on the work and life of sociologists around the world. This is reflected in each of the 12 chapters by internationally acclaimed scholars witnessing the range of fields Merton has contributed to as well as the personal impact he has had on sociologists. This approach is in itself a tribute to Merton: an analysis of knowledge production through a contextualized review of an author's life-work - a quintessentially "Mertonian" enterprise. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations and Tables Book Concept and Preface Note to Sound and Sculpture Introduction 1. The Paradoxes of Robert K. Merton: Fragmentary Reflections 2. Looking for Shoulders to Stand on! or for a Paradigm for the Sociology of Science 3. R. K. Merton in France: Foucault! Bourdieu! Latour and the Invention of Mainstream Sociology in Paris 4. Merton in South Asia: The Question of Religion and the Modernity of Science 5. The Contribution of Rober K. Merton's Key Concepts to the Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Society 6. A Tribute to Robert Merton: Protestant and Catholic Ethics Revisited 7. The Concept of Ambivalence in the Relationship between Science and Society 8. Re-evaluating the Place of Science in Evaluating Modernity 9. Democracy and the Normative Structure of Science After Modernity 10. The Matthew Effect Writ Large and Larger: A Study in Sociological Semantics 11. Repetition With Variation: A Mertonian Inquiry Into a Lost Mertonian Concept 12. Robert K. Merton and the Tansformation of Sociology of Knowledge and Possible New Directions Bibliography List of Contributors ...
