Robert King Merton was born Meyer R. Schkolnick on July 4, 1910, in South Philadelphia; he carried that name for the first 14 years of his life.

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 ...

A Tribute To Robert K. Merton On Receiving The National Medal Of Science. As Bob spoke about his boyhood in Philadelphia, his coming of age as a young Harvard intellectual, and the factors that fueled ...

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 ...

Robert King Merton, inventor of the focus group, died on February 23rd, aged 92. Share. Mar 13th 2003 | | 5 min read. Michael Shavel 1995. BY THE 1940s almost every home in the United States had a ...

Robert Merton on the Causes of the Financial Crisis. By Sean Silverthorne. Updated on: April 20, 2009 / 2:33 PM EDT / MoneyWatch Harvard Business School ...

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.