Charles Crothers

Reintroducing Robert K. Merton

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reintroduces the work of Robert K. Merton for contemporary sociology, offering an accessible analysis of the range of concepts that he introduced to the field, while recovering the full system of 'structural analysis' which he progressively developed applied in his analyses of various institutional fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780367409678
• ISBN-10: 0367409674
• Artikelnr.: 60354110

Autorenporträt

Charles Crothers is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He has previously worked at the Town & Country Planning Division of the Ministry of Works, Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Auckland, the University of Natal and as Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Sociologies of New Zealand, Social Structure and Robert K. Merton and was previously editor of NZ Population Review, Sociology in Transition , New Zealand Sociology and Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Case for Reintroducing Merton 2. '1930s: The Harvard Years' (
Jugendschriften) 3. Early Years at Columbia 4. Middle Years at Columbia 5.
Later Years 6. Reprise: Merton as Discipline-builder, Theorist, Substantive
Sociologist and Moralist 7. Merton the Man, His Operational Code and
Influences