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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Idea of social structure. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1975 (OCoLC)647108782 |
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| Named Person: | Robert King Merton; Robert King Merton |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert King Merton; Lewis A Coser |
| ISBN: | 0155405489 9780155405486 |
| OCLC Number: | 1698818 |
| Description: | ix, 547 p. : port. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | [1.] Robert K. Merton: the man and the work: Merton and the contemporary mind: an affectionate dialogue / Lewis A. Coser -- Merton's theory of social structure / Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Working with Merton / Paul F. Lazarsfeld -- The present status of structural-functional theory in sociology / Talcott Parsons -- Merton's use of the European sociological tradition / Lewis A. Coser -- [2.] On the shoulders of Merton: Toward a new view of the sociology of knowledge / Bernard Barber -- Structural constraints of status complements / Peter M. Blau -- The emergence of a scientific specialty: the self-exemplifying case of the sociology of science / Jonathan R. Cole and Harriet Zuckerman -- Legitimate and illegitimate use of power / James S. Coleman -- The complexity of roles as a seedbed of individual autonomy / Rose Laub Coser -- Reference individuals and reference idols / Herbert H. Hyman -- The planning of communities: anticipations and hindsights / Suzanne Keller -- Theory and research: the case of studies in medical education / Patricia Kendall -- Ironic perspective and sociological thought / Louis Schneider -- On formalizing theory / Hanan C. Selvin -- Relative deprivation / Robin M. Williams, Jr. -- Social structure and mass communications behavior: exploring patterns through constructional analysis / Charles R. Wright -- [3.] In the spirit of Merton: Sociology and the everyday life / Alvin W. Gouldner -- Intellectual types and political roles / Seymour Martin Lipset -- The myth of the Renaissance / Robert Nisbet -- The writings of Robert K. Merton: a bibliography / Mary Wilson Miles. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Lewis A. Coser. |
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