2003-02-24 04:00:00 PDT New York-- Robert K. Merton, one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century, whose coinage of terms like "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "role models" filtered ...

Although it is risky to claim that anyone invented anything, it is generally accepted by sociologists that Mr Merton's were the world's first focus groups, a research tool now used widely in commerce ...

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a quarterly journal that includes papers read at the American Philosophical Society’s biannual meetings, independent essays by outside scholars, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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FINANCE THEORISTS are, as everybody knows, unworldly people who can scarcely tie their shoelaces, still less change a car tyre. Robert Merton confounds this stereotype. As he talks amiably at the ...

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 ...

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