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Focused Interview by Robert K. Merton 9780029209868
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $27.85The 1956 edition of this book may be regarded as seminal within sociology, spawning a whole field of qualitative opinion research that has continued to evolve through half a century of inquiry. This... -
On Theoretical Sociology by Robert K. Merton 9780029211502
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $30.93Containing the most systematic statement of the theoretical foundations and framework of functional sociology, the essays included in this edition provide an authoritative approach to the functional... -
On Social Structure and Science by Robert K. Merton 9780226520704
Booksplease Price: $215.27Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time. A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contributions have become fundamental to the field,... -
Reintroducing Robert K. Merton by Charles Crothers 9780367409678
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $72.64This book reintroduces the work of Robert K. Merton as a bridge between classical sociology and modern sociology. Founded in the sociological classics but developing a modern approach to the... -
On Social Structure and Science by Robert K. Merton 9780226520711
Booksplease Price: $75.71Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time. A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contributions have become fundamental to the field,... -
The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations by Robert K. Merton
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $103.91"The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers... -
Robert K. Merton and Contemporary Sociology by Carlo Mongardini 9781138514256
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $116.09This volume offers scholars of sociology and allied areas the fruits of an international conference on the contributions of the eminent Robert K. Merton. The assessment, as good in content as well as... -
The Anthem Companion to Robert K. Merton by Charles Crothers 9781839981166
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $244.31Robert K. Merton's sociological work spans several decades: 1920s (childhood), 1930s (anomie, science, unanticipated), 1940s (housing studies, mass communications, structural-functional analysis,... -
Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science by Craig Calhoun 9780231151139
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, producing clear theories and innovative research that continue to shape multiple disciplines... -
The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton Lewis A. Coser 9781412847414
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $106.45Written and compiled by friends and former students, The Idea of Social Structure honors Robert K. Merton, considered one of the premier sociologists of the twentieth century. Along with Talcott... -
Concepts and the Social Order: Robert K. Merton and the Future of Sociology by Yehuda Elkana 9786155053412
RRP: $233.10Booksplease Price: $202.97Offers a comprehensive perspective on knowledge production in the field of sociology. Moreover, it is a tribute to the scope of Merton's work and the influence Merton has had on the work and life of... -
On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript - The Post-Italianate Edition by Robert K. Merton 9780226520865
Booksplease Price: $63.90With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Using as a model the discursive... -
The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science by Robert K. Merton
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered... -
Sociological Traditions From Generation to Generation: Glimpses of the American Experience by Robert K. Merton 9780893910617
Booksplease Price: $96.08This book provides insight into the lives and contributions of eigth master sociologists as perceived by their outstanding students. It provides perspectives on evolving cognitive traditions and the... -
Sociological Traditions From Generation to Generation: Glimpses of the American Experience by Robert K. Merton 9780893910341
Booksplease Price: $129.42This book provides insight into the lives and contributions of eigth master sociologists as perceived by their outstanding students. It provides perspectives on evolving cognitive traditions and the... -
The Brain's Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics by Victoria Pitts-Taylor
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically... -
The Brain's Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics by Victoria Pitts-Taylor 9780822361077
RRP: $207.90Booksplease Price: $167.45In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically... -
Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust by Donald Mackenzie 9780262632959
Booksplease Price: $78.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the 2003 Robert K. Merton Book Award presented by the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section... -
Bending the Law of Unintended Consequences: A Test-Drive Method for Critical Decision-Making in Organizations by Richard M. Adler 9783030327132
Booksplease Price: $128.18This title provides managers, executives and other professionals with an innovative method for critical decision-making. The book explains the reasons for decision failures using the Law of... -
Bending the Law of Unintended Consequences: A Test-Drive Method for Critical Decision-Making in Organizations by Richard M. Adler 9783030327163
Booksplease Price: $97.19This title provides managers, executives and other professionals with an innovative method for critical decision-making. The book explains the reasons for decision failures using the Law of... -
Science and Inequality: A Political Sociology Scott Frickel 9781509514809
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $32.21Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social groups and geographic regions. This incisive book... -
Science and Inequality: A Political Sociology Scott Frickel 9781509514793
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $94.08Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social groups and geographic regions. This incisive book... -
Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends: Incomplete Theory and Complete Bibliography by Irving Louis Horowitz
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50Candor, breadth, judiciousness-all these are attributes Irving Louis Horowitz possesses as a scholar. Under his leadership there is no academic publication from which I have learned as much as... -
Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade by Gabrielle Hecht 9780262526869
Booksplease Price: $62.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Co-winner, 2012 Martin A. Klein Prize in African History, awarded by the American Historical Society. 2012... -
Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where Robert Merton 9780765807205
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $106.45Social Science Quotations has been prepared to meet an evident, unmet need in the literature of the social sciences. Writings on the lives and theories of individual social scientists abound, but... -
The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change by Randall Collins 9780674001879
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $73.35Randall Collins traces the movement of philosophical thought in ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from... -
Political Systems: Some Sociological Approaches H WISEMAN 9781032700335
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50First published in 1966, Political Systems provides an examination of political systems through a sociological approach. This comprehensive survey summarizes the theories of many of the most eminent... -
Sociologists on Sociology Robert Mullan 9781032231471
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $71.46Originally published in 1987, this edition in 1996, Sociologists on Sociology is a unique and sometimes controversial account of the development, disputes and the future of sociology as seen through... -
Political Systems: Some Sociological Approaches by H WISEMAN 9781032700304
Booksplease Price: $232.45First published in 1966, Political Systems provides an examination of political systems through a sociological approach. This comprehensive survey summarizes the theories of many of the most eminent... -
Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line by Thomas F. Gieryn 9780226292618
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $172.81Why is science so credible? Usual answers centre on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. This text argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies... -
Sorokin and Civilization: A Centennial Assessment by Joseph B. Ford
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $175.01Sorokin and Civilization is a festschrift to Pitirim Sorokin, one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology and first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study... -
Sorokin and Civilization: A Centennial Assessment Joseph B. Ford 9781138514874
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.19Sorokin and Civilization is a festschrift to Pitirim Sorokin, one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology and first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study... -
American Communication Research: The Remembered History by Everette E. Dennis
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This book captures the essence of a never-to-be-repeated glimpse at the history of media research. It offers a unique examination of the origins, meaning, and impact of media and communication... -
Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality by Jon Elster 9781316507001
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $42.86Drawing on philosophy, political and social theory, decision-theory, economics, psychology, history and literature, Jon Elster's classic book Sour Grapes continues and complements the arguments of... -
Adam's Rib Ruth Herschberger 9781041260141
RRP: $155.38Booksplease Price: $136.90Originally published in 1948 this classic book by the feminist critic and poet Ruth Herschberger was one of an early wave of mid-century texts (along with Simon de Beauvoir's Second Sex) that... -
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-century England by Steven Shapin 9780226750194
Booksplease Price: $76.34How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? This study engages... -
The Fate of Knowledge by Helen E. Longino
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92Helen Longino seeks to break the current deadlock in the ongoing wars between philosophers of science and sociologists of science--academic battles founded on disagreement about the role of social... -
Society and Knowledge: Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge and Science Nico Stehr 9781412804745
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $96.45The sociology of knowledge is generally seen as part of the sociology of cultural products. Along with the sociology of science, it explores the social character of science and in particular the... -
The Art of Social Theory by Richard Swedberg
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.75In the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures of the discipline. What they rarely learn, however,... -
The Art of Social Theory by Richard Swedberg 9780691155227
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $65.73In the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures of the discipline. What they rarely learn, however,...