Robert King Merton (Author of Social Theory and Social Structure)

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Books by Robert King Merton

Average rating: 4.05 · 229 ratings · 29 reviews · 39 distinct works

	Social Theory and Social Structure 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science by Robert King Merton, Elinor G. Barber 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	On Theoretical Sociology 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1967	My rating:
	On the Shoulders of Giants: The Post-Italianate Edition by Robert King Merton, Denis Donoghue (Designed by), Umberto Eco (Foreword by) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	My rating:
	On Social Structure and Science by Robert King Merton, Piotr Sztompka (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Advances in Criminological Theory: The Legacy of Anomie v. 6 (Advances in Criminological Theory) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating:
	The Sociology of Science in Europe by Robert King Merton, Jerry Gaston (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1977	My rating:
	Sociology Today: Problems And Prospects 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	My rating:
	Focused Interview 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”
― Robert King Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure

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“Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.”
― Robert King Merton

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“A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.”
― Robert King Merton

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