I must confess as well to a certain amount of civic pride, since The Scientist--like Bob Merton--has its roots in the City of Brotherly Love. ACLS couldn't have made a more appropriate selection for ...

Robert King Merton, whose groundbreaking work on the psychosocial forces that shape science careers established the sociology of science as a scientific discipline, died Feb. 23 at the age of 92. Most ...

This is a sociological and psychological concept, first described in 1948 by the US sociologist Robert K. Merton, illustrating how people’s assumptions and expectations affect events to such an ...