• Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 25, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of...
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    Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School...
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    values or goals, and crime. Strain theory was originally introduced by Robert King Merton (1938), and argues that society's dominant cultural values and social...
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  • society. Agnew recognized that strain theory, originally put forward by Robert King Merton, was limited in terms of fully conceptualizing the range of possible...
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    Merton Priory was an English Augustinian priory founded in 1114 by Gilbert Norman, Sheriff of Surrey under King Henry I (1100–1135). It was situated within...
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  • Martineau Karl Marx George Herbert Mead Robert King Merton John Stuart Mill Charles Wright Mills Vilfredo Pareto Robert Ezra Park Talcott Parsons Claude Henri...
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  • Middle-range theory (sociology) (category Robert K. Merton)
    Middle-range theory, developed by Robert K. Merton, is an approach to sociological theorizing aimed at integrating theory and empirical research. It is...
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  • Zienia Merton (11 December 1945 – 14 September 2018) was a British actress born in Burma. She was known for playing Sandra Benes in Space: 1999. Merton was...
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    egoistic ends rather than seeking the good of a larger community. Robert King Merton also adopted the idea of anomie to develop strain theory, defining...
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    Communications. For the news in this prospect see Guglielmo Rinzivillo, Robert King Merton Utet, Turin, 2019. Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) emerged as a framework...
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