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The Idea of social structure : papers in honor of Robert K. Merton

Author: Robert King Merton; Lewis A Coser
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1975.
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Idea of social structure.
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1975
(OCoLC)647108782
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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