Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Uses and Abuses of Classical Theory 2: Theoretical Pluralism 3: On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range 4: Specified Ignorance 5: Paradigms: The Codification of Sociological Theory 6: Paradigm for Functional Analysis in Sociology 7: Manifest and Latent Functions 8: Social Dysfunctions 9: Paradigm for Structural Analysis in Sociology 10: The Role-Set 11: Sociological Ambivalence 12: Social Structure and Anomie 13: Opportunity Structure 14: Socially Expected Durations 15: The Unanticipated Consequences of Social Action 16: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 17: Paradigm for the Sociology of Knowledge 18: The Rise of Modern Science 19: Insiders and Outsiders 20: The Ethos of Science 21: Science and the Social Order 22: The Reward System of Science 23: Multiple Discoveries in Science 24: The Matthew Effect, II Coda: A Life of Learning Publications by and about Robert K. Merton: A Select Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

About the Author

Piotr Sztompka is professor of sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and visiting professor in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. His books published in English include Sociological Dilemmas: Toward a Dialectic Paradigm.