Science and social structure
Subtitle: a festschrift for Robert K. Merton
By: Thomas F. Gieryn, editor.
Contributors: Merton, Robert King, 1910-; Gieryn, Thomas F.
Series: Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences ;; ser. 2, v. 39
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Merton, Robert King, 1910-; Science.; Science -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: value: 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.; value: Dahrendorf, R. On representative activities.; value: Eisenstadt, S. N. Autonomy of sociology and its emancipatory dimensions.; value: Elkana, Y. Of cunning reason.; value: Ezrahi, Y. Science and the problem of authority in democracy.; value: Garfield, E. Citation measures of the influence of Robert K. Merton.; value: Grünbaum, A. The role of psychological explanations of the rejection or acceptance of scientific theories.; value: Janis, I. L. An analysis of psychological and sociological ambivalence.; value: Mulkay, M. Interpretation and the use of rules.; value: Samuelson, P. A. Fisher's "reproductive value" as an economic specimen in Merton's zoo.; value: Stigler, G. J. Merton on multiples, denied and affirmed.; value: Stigler, S. M. Stigler's law of eponymy.