ISBN:
9781351481205
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (523 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Coser, Lewis A The Idea of Social Structure : Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Social structure
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copy Right Page -- Content Page -- Preface -- Robert K. Merton the Man and the Work -- Merton and the Contemporary Mind -- Merton's Theory of Social Structure -- Working with Merton -- The Present Status of "Structural-Functional" Theory in Sociology -- Merton's Uses of the European Sociological Tradition -- On the Shoulders of Merton -- Toward a New View of the Sociology of Knowledge -- Structural Constraints of Status Complements* -- The Emergence of A Scientific Specialty -- The Growth of Scientific Knowledge -- Legitimate and Illegitimate Use of Power -- The Complexity of Roles as a Seedbed of Individual Autonomy* -- Reference Individuals and Reference Idols -- The Planning of Communities -- Theory and Research -- Ironic Perspective and Sociological Thought -- On Formalizing Theory* -- Relative Deprivation -- Social Structure and Mass Communications Behavior -- In The Spirit of Merton -- Sociology and the Everyday Life -- Intellectual Types and Political Roles* -- The Myth of the Renaissance* -- The Writings of Robert K. Merton: A Bibliography Mary Wilson Miles, Columbia University -- Index
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