Science and social structure : a festschrift for Robert K. Merton - Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003; Gieryn Thomas F (New York, N.Y. : New York Academy of Sciences, 1980)
Cournand, A. Historical details of Claude Bernard's invention of a technique for measuring the temperature and the pressure of the blood within the cavities of the heart.--Dahrendorf, R. On representative activities.--Eisenstadt, S. N. Autonomy of sociology and its emancipatory dimensions.--Elkana, Y. Of cunning reason.--Ezrahi, Y. Science and the problem of authority in democracy.--Garfield, E. Citation measures of the influence of Robert K. Merton.--Grünbaum, A. The role of psychological explanations of the rejection or acceptance of scientific theories.--Janis, I. L. An analysis of psychological and sociological ambivalence.--Mulkay, M. Interpretation and the use of rules.--Samuelson, P. A. Fisher's "reproductive value" as an economic specimen in Merton's zoo.--Stigler, G. J. Merton on multiples, denied and affirmed.--Stigler, S. M. Stigler's law of eponymy.
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Keywords: Merton Robert King -- 1910; Science; Science -- Social aspects