Scientists' Competitive Behavior Is Not Peculiar To Our Competitive Age Author: Robert K. Merton, pp.12 century, America's preeminent science historian/sociologist, Robert K. Merton, has played a ...

Robert K. Merton died the other day. Who is Robert K. Merton? Well, aside from being the father of the focus group, that imperfect but there's nothing better tool that helps companies, politicians, ...

An analysis of Kate Smith's war bond appeal broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System, Sept. 21, 1943. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...

As Bob spoke about his boyhood in Philadelphia, his coming of age as a young Harvard intellectual, and the factors that fueled his preoccupation with the history of science and the behavior of ...

The old cliché, "The rich get richer while the poor get poorer," thrives for those who have, and threatens or at least diminishes hope for those who have not. Robert K. Merton, a sociologist in the ...

Vita e Pensiero, founded in 1918, is the Publishing House of the Catholic University of Milan. Today, the purpose of its editorial line is to become a more active presence in the cultural debate and ...

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