Beautifully written, the book is permeated by the prodigious intellectual curiosity and generosity that characterized Merton's influential On the Shoulders of Giants. An instructorship at Harvard was followed by a professorship at Tulane University.
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The couple had three children - a son and two daughters. For his immense work in sociology, he received many national and international honours. Robert K. Merton was an American sociologist, best known as the ‘father of modern sociology.’ He is also known for his significant contributions to criminology.
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Merton's foundational writings on social structure and process, on the sociology of science and knowledge, and on the discipline and trajectory of sociology itself are all powerfully represented, as are his autobiographical insights in a fascinating coda.
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Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 2020.Nagy, Adam S., and Robert C. Merton, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6144-20.
He also used to visit the museums of arts and music.He was good in academics and performed quite well in the high school.
In collaboration with the late Fischer Black, they developed a pioneering formula for the valuation of stock options. Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The next year, Robert married Harriet Zuckerman, a sociologist and his frequent collaborator.Robert passed away on February 23, 2003, in Manhattan. He is considered the founder of the sociology of science.
Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time.
A Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (‘Q Group’) and a Fellow of the Financial Management Association, Merton received the Nicholas Molodovsky Award from the CFA Institute.
Robert K. Merton was an American sociologist, educator, and internationally regarded academic statesman for sociology in contemporary research and social policy. Early Life and Education Robert K. Merton was born Meyer R. Schkolnick in Philadelphia into a working class Eastern European Jewish Immigrant family.
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He later became a professor of sociology at Harvard University, Tulane University and Columbia University. It later burned down and the family faced heavy financial crunch.Robert kept his birth name for the first 17 years of life. Robert Merton was educated at Temple University and received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1936.After being attracted to sociology by George E. Simpson, he studied with or was profoundly influenced by such thinkers as George Sarton, Pitirim Sorokin, Talcott Parsons, and L. J. Henderson.
In retrospect, his entire intellectual career was notable for the flexibility with which he combined theoretical formulations, useful typologies and classifications, empirical investigations, and a concern for the practical implications of sociological work in modern society. We cross oceans and academic specialties and meet those people, both famous and now obscure, who have used and abused serendipity. This is all the more curious because it so remarkably anticipated subsequent battles over research and funding--many of which centered on the role of serendipity in science. During his teenage years, he became interested in magic, but while attending ‘Temple University,’ he got interested in sociology.