biography
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Merton, Robert K(ing)
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originally Meyer Robert Schkolnick
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| male
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| lived:
| (1910–2003)
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| biography:
| Sociologist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Temple and Harvard, going on to teach at Harvard (1934–9), Tulane (1939–41), and Columbia universities (1941–79). He was also associate director of the Bureau of Applied Social Research. He is regarded as the founder of the sociology of science, in which he developed an analysis of the norms guiding scientists' behaviour, the competition and reward system in science, and how both of these operate in historical and contemporary contexts. His main works include Social Theory and Social Structure (1949) and The Sociology of Science (1973). He shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1997. |
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