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, ...

Motive forces of the new science (1938) / Robert K. Merton -- Mertonian theses (1974) / Charles C. Gillispie -- Influence of religion on the development of the sciences (1885) / Alphonse de Candolle - ...

"An American journal of sociology publication." Appeared also as v. 78, no. 1 (July 1972) of the American journal of sociology. Merton, R. K. Insiders and outsiders: a chapter in the sociology of ...

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 ...

Denominational differences in the number of scientists produced in Germany during the period 1550 to 1900 are linked to the historical impact of Catholic celibate and Protestant noncelibate clergy ...

BOSTON, March 19, 2010 —Robert C. Merton, Harvard's John and Natty McArthur University Professor based at Harvard Business School and the 1997 cowinner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in the Economic ...