Anthem Companion to Robert K. Merton

Charles Crothers is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He taught previously at Universities of Auckland, Wellington, and Natal.Lorenzo Sabetta is a postdoctoral researcher at Sapienza University of Rome and an adjunct professor of sociology at LUISS University.

• List of Figures and Tables; Chapter One Introduction: Merton’s Self-Exemplifying Classical Sociological Contributions; Charles Crothers, Lorenzo Sabetta, and Lawrence Stern; Chapter Two Skeptical Faith, Left Politics, and the Making of Young Robert K. Merton; Peter Simonson, Chapter Three Theorist’s Progress: Young Robert K. Merton, 1941–1949; Kenneth Fox, Chapter Four Taking a Seminar with Merton; Richard Swedberg, Chapter Five The Development of Mertonian Status-and-Role Theory; Charles Crothers, Chapter Six Theory as an Option or Theory as a Must? The Bearing of Methodological Choices on the Role of Sociological Theory; Antonio Fasanella and Lorenzo Sabetta, Chapter Seven “Interviews of a Special Type”: Robert K. Merton and Codification of the Focused Interview; Raymond M. Lee, Chapter Eight Science as a Culture; Eric Malczewski, Chapter Nine “Providing Puzzles”: Science as Norms and Values; Michel Dubois, Chapter Ten A Mertonian Breviary for Cultural Sociologists; Christian Fleck, Chapter Eleven The Unpublished Robert K Merton; Harriet Zuckerman, Author Biographies; Index

The Anthem Companions to Sociology offers wide ranging and masterly overviews of the works of major sociologists. The volumes in the series provide authoritative and critical appraisals of key figures in modern social thought. These books, written and edited by leading figures, are essential additional reading on the history of sociology. —Gerard Delanty, Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton