Robert K. Merton: Consensus and Controversy

Abstract

Part 1 Editorial introduction: Robert K. - consensus and controversy, Jon Clark et al general introduction: Robert as sociologist, Jon Clark Robert as teacher, James S. Coleman polished pebbles, pretty shells - an appreciation of OTSOG, Stephen Jay Gould. Part 2 Consensus and controversy: systematic social theory - R.K. Merton's theoretical systems - an overview, Piotr Sztompka Merton's systematic theory, Robert Bierstedt interchange - Sztompka replies to Bierstedt - Bierstedt replies to Sztompka structural analysis - social structure in the work of Robert Merton, Arthur Stinchcombe R.K. on structural analysis, Anthony Giddens interchange - Stinchcombe replies to Giddens - Giddens replies to Sitnchcombe unanticipated and unintended consequences-latent functions and dysfunctions - the two facets of the unintended consequences paradigm, Raymond Boudon Merton's functionalism and the unintended consequences of action, Jon Elster interchange - Boudin replies to Elster structural constraints and opportunities, Merton's contribution to general theory, Peter M.Blau status-sets and role-sets - reflections on Merton's role-set theory, Rose Laub Coser role-sets and status-sets, Richard A.Hilbert interchange - Coser replies to Hilbert - Hilbert replies to Coser the dysfunctions of bureaucracies the dysfunctions of bureacracies - Merton's work in organizational sociology, Charles Crothers Merton's theory of anomie - Merton's instrumental theory of anomie, Marco Orru in search of anomie, Phillippe Besnard interchange - Orru replies to Basnard - Basnard replies to Orru the self-fulfilling prophecy - the self-fulfilling prophecy in the work of Robert Merton, Lee S.Shulman and Sam Wineburg sociology of science - Robert K. Merton's sociology of science, Nico Stehr animadversiones in Merton, Pierre Bordieu interchange - Bordieu replies to Stehr the Merton Thesis - puritanism and science - some documentary reflections on the dissemination and reception of the Merton Thesis, I. Bernard Cohen puritanism and science - the Merton Thesis after, Piyo Rattansi infant giants are not pygmies - the Merton Thesis and the sociology of science, A. Rupert Hall the interplay of social theory and empirical research, Hubert M. Blalock Jr the interplay of general sociological theory and empirical research, Mark Gould interchange - Blalock replies to Gould - Gould replies to Blalock the sociology of time - Robert K. Merton's contribution to sociological studies of time, Simonetta Tabboni. Part 3 Concluding comment - consensus and controversy as an example of organized scepticism, Robert K. Merton.

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