Robert K. Merton

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"The ethos of science involves the functionally necessary demand that theories or generalizations be evaluated in their logical consistency and consonance with facts."

"It is likely that the emphasis upon the metaphysical and epistemological implications of the sociology of knowledge can be traced, in part, to the fact that the first proponents of this discipline ste…"

"No man knows fully what has shaped his own thinking"

"Social Structure and Anomie" by Robert K. Merton in American Sociological Review 3 , p. 672-682"

"The last two decades have witnessed, especially in Germany and France, the rise of a new discipline, the sociology of knowledge , with a rapidly increasing number of students and a growing literature …"

"The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come "true". This specious validity of the self…"

"Scientific research is not conducted in a social vacuum."