Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 25, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of...

changing dynamics in financial institutions. Merton was born in New York City to sociologist Robert K. Merton, who was of Jewish descent, and Suzanne Carhart...

satisfaction from doing their work and therefore feeling alienated. Robert K. Merton does not directly define self-estrangement in his Theory of Deviancy...

The Merton thesis is an argument about the nature of early experimental science proposed by Robert K. Merton. Similar to Max Weber's famous claim on the...

with Robert K. Merton. Both Merton and Lazarsfeld were new faculty members in Columbia University's Department of Sociology appointed in 1941. Merton was...

Middle-range theory, developed by Robert K. Merton, is an approach to sociological theorizing aimed at integrating theory and empirical research. It is...

sociologist Robert K. Merton expanded on Weber's theories of bureaucracy in his work Social Theory and Social Structure, published in 1957. While Merton agreed...

Robert Merton may refer to: Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist Robert C. Merton (born 1944), American economist, Nobel Laureate, MIT professor...

This was followed in 1937 by a much-cited survey of the subject by Robert K. Merton, the American sociologist, 'The sociology of knowledge'. With the dominance...

in the Western Pacific. It was later modified for sociology by Robert K. Merton. Merton appeared interested in sharpening the conceptual tools to be employed...