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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003. Social theory and social structure. New York, Free Press [1968] (OCoLC)654721385 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert King Merton |
ISBN: | 0029211301 9780029211304 |
OCLC Number: | 253949 |
Notes: | "Enlarged to include two new essays on theoretical sociology"--Jacket. |
Description: | xxiii, 702 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. On theoretical sociology. On the history and systematics of sociological theory -- On sociological theories of the middle range -- Manifest and latent functions -- The bearing of sociological theory on empirical research -- The bearing of empirical research on sociological theory -- pt. 2. Studies in social and cultural structure. Introduction -- Social structure and anomie -- Continuities in the theory of social structure and anomie -- Bureaucratic structure and personality -- Role of the intellectual in public bureaucracy -- Contributions to the theory of reference group behavior / with Alice S. Rossi -- Continuities in the theory of reference groups and social structure -- Patterns of influence: local and cosmopolitan influentials -- The self-fulfilling prophecy -- pt. 3. The sociology of knowledge and mass communications. Introduction -- The sociology of knowledge -- Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge -- Studies in radio and film propaganda / with Paul F. Lazarsfeld -- pt. 4. Studies in the sociology of science. Introduction -- Science and the social order -- Science and democratic social structure -- The machine, the worker, and the engineer -- Puritanism, pietism, and science -- Science and economy of 17th century England. |
Responsibility: | Robert K. Merton. |
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