Robert Merton and the Sociology of Science: The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, Robert K. Merton.
In 1949, Robert Merton asked: "Why did sociology document the problems and performance of the professional thief ... but not the problems and performance of the professional social scientist?" Unsuccessfully, he argued for a systematic study of the "social science of social science." This essay, sev...
| Publicado en: | Social Research Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 433 - 446 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Summer2022
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