Concepts and the Social Order: Robert K. Merton and the Future of Sociology

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Table of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Book Concept and Preface Yehuda Elkana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Note to Sound and Sculpture Amos Elkana and Alexander Polzin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. The Paradoxes of Robert K. Merton: Fragmentary Reflections Arnold Thackray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2. Looking for Shoulders to Stand on, or for a Paradigm for the Sociology of Science Anna Wessely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3. R. K. Merton in France: Foucault, Bourdieu, Latour and the Invention of Mainstream Sociology in Paris Jean-Louis Fabiani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4. Merton in South Asia: The Question of Religion and the Modernity of Science Dhruv Raina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 5. The Contribution of Robert K. Merton’s Key Concepts to the Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Society Cynthia Fuchs Epstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 6. A Tribute to Robert Merton: Protestant and Catholic Ethics Revisited Rivka Feldhay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 7. The Concept of Ambivalence in the Relationship between Science and Society Helga Nowotny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 8. Re-evaluating the Place of Science in Evaluating Modernity Gabriel Motzkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 9. Democracy and the Normative Structure of Science after Modernity Yaron Ezrahi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 10. The Matthew Effect Writ Large and Larger: A Study in Sociological Semantics Harriet Zuckerman . . . . . . . . 121 11. Repetition with Variation: A Mertonian Inquiry into a Lost Mertonian Concept Charles Camic . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 12. Robert K. Merton and the Tansformation of Sociology of Knowledge and Possible New Directions Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 vi Concepts and the Social Order ...