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 ...

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 ...

Princeton. 313 pp. $29.95 Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) has long been highly revered by two groups of people: sociologists, who look to the longtime Columbia professor as one of the great masters ...

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 ...

Robert Merton, considered one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century, dies Sunday in Manhattan at 92. Merton's work crossed boundaries from literature to science to mass media ...

Robert C. Merton is currently the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the faculty of Harvard in 1988, he served on the finance faculty of the ...

Robert King Merton, inventor of the focus group, died on February 23rd, aged 92 ...

Harvard Business School professor and Nobel Prize winner Robert Merton believes the economic crisis was caused by financial engineering innovations that unleashed forces that we really didn't ...