WRITINGS OF ROBERT K. MERTON

BOOKS

1938  . Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England. In OSIRIS: Studies on the History and Philosophy of Science and on the History of Learning and Culture. Ed. by George Sarton. Bruges, Belgium: The St. Catherine Press, 362-632 
. 1970  . New York: Howard Fertig, Inc.; Harper Torchbooks, Harper & Row.
. 1975 Scienza, technologia e societa nell'Inghilterra del XVII secolo. Milano: Franco Angeli
. 1978 Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press
. 1983 Japanese translation. Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobo.
. 1984 
1985
Ciencia, technologia y sociedad en la Inglaterra del siglo XVII. Madrid: Alianza 1985 Editorial, S.A.
. 1986 Chinese translation (by Wu Zhong et al.) Chengdu Sichuan: People's Press. Wetenschap, technologie en maatschappig in het 17de-eeuwse Engeland.  Amersfoort: Acco.
. 1999 Chinese translation (by Dainian Fan) Beijing: The Commercial Press
. 2001 New York: Howard Fertig, Inc
1942 . The Family Encounters the Depression: A Re-analysis of Documents (with E. W . Burgess et al. ), New York: Social Science Research Council. 127 pp. Mimeographed.
1946 Mass Persuasion (with the assistance of Marjorie Fiske and Alberta Curtis) New York: Harper & Brothers.
. 1971 Stamford, CN: Greenwood Press.
1949 . Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: The Free Press.
. 1953 Éléments de méthode sociologique. Paris: Librairie PIon.
. 1957 Revised and enlarged edition. New York: Free Press.
. 1959 Teoria e struttura sociale. Bologna: 11 Mulino.
. . 1995 Eighth edition. Three volumes
. 1960 Teoria social y estructura social. Santiago, Chile: Andres Bello.
. 1962  Japanese translation. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo Publishing Company.
. 1964 Teoria y estructura sociales. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica
. 1965 Elements de theorie et de methode sociologique. enlarged edition. Paris: Librairie PIon.
. 1968 Enlarged edition. New York: Free Press.
. 1970 Sociologia, teoria e estruttura. Sao Paolo: Editoria Mestr Jou.
. 1971 Hebrew Translation. Tel Aviv: Yachdav United Publishers Co.
. 1972 Indian edition. New Deh1i: Amerind Publishing Company.
. 1980 Tarsadalomelmelet es Tarsadalmi Struktura. Budapest: Gondolat.
. 1981 Teoria Socjologiczna i Struktura Spoleczna. Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.
. 1995 Soziologische Theorie und soziale Struktur. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
. 1999 Chinese translation. Beijing: The Commercial Press.
1950 . Continuities in Social Research: Studies in the Scope and Method of "The American Soldier "(edited with Paul F. Lazarsfeld). New York: The Free Press.
. 1974 New York: Arno Press
1951 . Patterns of Social Life: Explorations in the Sociology of Housing (with Patricia S. West and Marie Jahoda). New York: Columbia University Bureau of Applied Social Research. Two Volumes. Mimeographed
1951 . Social Policy and Social Research on Housing (editor with Patricia S. West, Marie Jahoda andHanan C. Selvin). The Journal of Social Issues 8, nos. 1,2.
. . Sociologia de vivienda. Buenos Aires: Coleccion hombre y sociedad, serie sociologia urbana. 
1952 . Reader in Bureaucracy (edited with Alisa P. Gray, Barbara Hockey and Hanan C. Selvin).New York: The Free Press.
1956 . The Focused Interview. (with Marjorie Fiske and Patricia L. Kendall). New York: The Free Press.
. 1990 Second Edition
1956 . The Role of Social Research in Business Administration: A Case Study Based Primarily Upon the 1930-1949 Experience of the Opinion Research Section of the Chief Statistician 's Division of AT&T (with E.C. Devereux, Jr.). 2 vols. New York: Bureau of Applied Social Research.
1957 . The Student-Physician: Introductory Studies in the Sociology of Medical Education (edited with George G. Reader and Patricia L. Kendall). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
1957 . The Freedom to Read: Perspective and Program (with Richard McKeon and Walter Gellhom). New York: R.R. Bowker Co.
1959 . Sociology Today: Problems and Prospects (edited with Leonard Broom and Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr.). New York: Basic Books.
. 1967  New York: Harper & Row
Translations: Spanish, Russian, Romanian.
1961 . Contemporary Social Problems (edited with Robert A. Nisbet). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
. 1976 Fourth edition
1965 . On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript. New York: The Free Press.
. 1967 New York: HarcourtBraceJovanovich
. 1980 1980 Auf den Schultern von Riesen: Ein Leitfaden durch das Labyrinth der Gelehrsamkeit (translated by Reinhard Kaiser). Frankfurt am Main: Syndikat.
. 1983 Auf den Schultern von Riesen: Ein Leitfaden durch das Labyrinth der Gelehrsamkeit. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch edition. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
. 1985 The Vicennial edition. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
. 1990 A hombros de gigantes (translated by Enrique Muvillo). Barcelona: ediciones península.
. 1991 Sulle spalle dei giganti (translated by Virginia Teodori). Bologna: II Mulino.
. 1993  The Post-ltalianate edition (Foreword by Umberto Eco). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1967 . On Theoretical Sociology: Five Essays, Old and New. New York: The Free Press.
. 1979 O Teorijskoj Sociologiji. Zagreb: Biblioteka Pitanja
1969 . Social Theory and Functional Analysis (in Japanese). Translated by Togo Mori, Yoshio Mori and Kanazawa Minoru. Tokyo, Japan: Aoki Shoten.
1973 . The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. Edited by Norman Storer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
. 1977 La Sociologia de la ciencia. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. 2 volumes.
. 1979 Chicago: University Press, Phoenix edition.
. 1982 La Sociologia della scienza. Milano: Franco Angeli Editore.
. 1983 Chinese translation. Beijing: Commercial Press.
. 1984 1984 Entwicklung und Wandel von Forschungsinteressen: Aufs@tze zur Wissenschaftssoziologie. Frankfurt A.M.: Suhrkamp.
. 1998 1984 Entwicklung und Wandel von Forschungsinteressen: Aufs@tze zur Wissenschaftssoziologie. Frankfurt A.M.: Suhrkamp.
1976 . Sociological Ambivalence. New York The Free Press.
. 1979 Ambivalenica Sociologica e Outros Ensaios. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editores.
. 1980 1980 Ambivalenica Sociologica y Otros Ensayos. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, S.A.
1977 . The Sociology of Science in Europe (edited with Jerry Gaston and Adam Podgorecki). Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press.
. 1980 La Sociologia della scienza en Europa. Milano: Franco Angeli Editore.
1978 . Toward a Metric of Science: Thoughts Occasioned by the Advent of Science Indicators (edited with Yehuda Elkana, Joshua Lederberg, Arnold Thackray and Harriet Zuckerman). New York: John Wiley.
1979 . Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research: Papers in Honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld (edited with James S. Coleman and Peter H. Rossi). New York: The Free Press.
1979 . The Sociology of Science: An Episodic Memoir. Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press.
. 1983 Japanese translation. Tokyo: Saiensu-sha Co. Ltd.Spanish translation
. 1999 Chinese translation. Beijing: The Commercial Press.
1980 . Sociological Traditions from Generation to Generation: Glimpses of the American Experience (edited with Matilda White Riley). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
1981 . Continuities in Structural Inquiry (edited with Peter M. Blau). London: Sage Publications.
1982 . Social Research and the Practicing Professions. Cambridge: Abt Books.
. 2000 Chinese Translation.  Beijing: The Commercial Press
1990 . Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where (with David L. Sills). International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, vol. 19. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company. 1991 Paperback edition.
2000 . Studie ze sociologické teori (trans. by Jana Ogrocká). Praha: Sociologické. Nakladatelství
1996 . .Robert K. Merton On Social Structure and Science, The Heritage of Sociology (edited and with an Introduction By Piotr Sztompka). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press
. . In press The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science (with Elinor Barber). Bologna: II Mulino. (Italian).

ARTICLES


1       . 1934  Recent French Sociology. Social Forces 12, 537-45.
2. 1934 Durkheim's Division of Labor in Society. American Journal of Sociology, 40, 319-28.
3.  1935 . The Course of Arabian Intellectual Development, 700-1300 A.D. (with Pitirim A. Sorokin). ISIS 22,516-24.
4. 1935 Fluctuations in the Rate of Industrial Invention. Quarterly Journal of Economics 49, 454-470. 
5. 1935 Science and Military Technique. Scientific Monthly 41, 542-545.
6. 1936 Civilization and Culture. Sociology and Social Research 21, 103-113.
7. 1936 Puritanism, Pietism and Science. Sociological Review 28, 1-30.
8. 1936 The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action. American Sociological Review 1, 894-904.
9 1937 Some Economic Factors in Seventeenth-Century English Science. Scientia: Revista di Scienza 62, 31,142-152.
10 1937 Science, Population and Society. Scientific Monthly, 44, 165-171.
11. 1937 Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis (with Pitirim A. Sorokin). American Journalof Sociology 42, 615-629.
12 1937 Sociological Aspects of Invention, Discovery and Scientific Theories (with Pitirim A. Sorokin). InPitirim A. Sorokin, Social and Cultural Dynamics. 4 vols. New York: American Book Co., vol. 2, 125-180, 439-476.
13 1937 The Sociology of Knowledge, ISIS, 27, 493-503.
14 1938 Science and the Social Order. Philosophy of Science 5,321-337.
15 1938 Social Structure and Anomie. American Sociological Review 3, 672-682.
16 1939 Science and the Economy of 17th-Century England. Science and Society 3, 1 (Winter), 3-27..
17 1940 Science and the Economy of 17th-Century England. Science and Society 3, 1 (Winter), 3-27..
18 1940 Crime and the Anthropologist (with M.F. Ashley Montagu). American Anthropologist 42, 384-408. 
19 1940 Fact and Factitiousness in Ethnic Opinionnaires. American Sociological Review 5, 1, 13-28. 
19a. 1940 Rejoinder to Jessie Bernard. American Sociological Review, 5, 4, 647-648.
20 1941 Intermarriage and the Social Structure: Fact and Theory. Psychiatry 4, 361-374.
21 1941  Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge. Journal of Liberal Religion 2, 125-147.
22 1941 Florian Znaniecki's The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge: a review essay. American Sociological Review 6, 111-115.
23 1941 Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History: a review essay. American Journal of Sociology 47, 2: 205-213.
24 1942 A Note on Science and Democracy. Journal of Legal and Political Sociology 1, 115-126.
25 1943 A Note on Science and Democracy. Journal of Legal and Political Sociology 1, 115-126.
26 1943 Studies in Radio and Film Propaganda (with Paul F. Lazarsfeld). Transactions, New York Academy of Sciences ser. 2, 6, 58-79.
27 1943 Discussion of Lundberg-Friedman Paper (with Genevieve Knupfer). Rural Sociology, Vol. 8, No. 3,(September): 236-239.
28 1944  The Boomerang Response (with Patricia L. Kendall). Channels. National Publicity Council for Health and Welfare Service, 21, 1-7.
29 1944 Paternal Status and Economic Adjustment of High School Graduates (with Bryce Ryan). Social Forces 22, 302-306.
30 1944 The Value of High School Scholarship on the Labor Market (with Bryce Ryan). Journal of Educational Sociology 17, 524-534.
31 1945 Role of the Intellectual in Public Bureaucracy. Social Forces 23, 405-415.
32 1945  Sociology of Knowledge. In Georges Gurvitch and Wilbert E. Moore, eds. Twentieth Century Sociology. New York: Philosophical Library, 366-405.
33 1945 Sociological Theory . American Journal of Sociology 50,462-473.
34 1946 The Focused Interview (with Patricia L. Kendall). American Journal of Sociology 51, 541-557.
35 1947 The Machine, the Worker, and the Engineer. Science 105, 79-84.
36 1947 Selected Problems of Field Work in the Planned Community . American Sociological Review 12, 304-312.
37 1947 The Expert and Research in Applied Social Science. New York: Columbia University Bureau of Applied Societal Research. Mimeographed
38 1947 Some Social Responsibilities of Technologists. Chemical and Engineering News. Vol. 25, No.6, February 10: 362-365,
39 1948 The Bearing of Empirical Research Upon the Development of Sociological Theory . American Sociological Review 13, 505-515.
40 1948 Discrimination and the American Creed. In R.M. Maclver, ed. Discrimination and National Welfare. New York: Harper & Brothers, 99-126.
41 1948 A Note on Mass Persuasion. International Journal of Opinion and Attitude Research (Spring), 101-108.
42 1948 Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action (with Paul F. Lazarsfeld). In Lyman Bryson, ed. Communication of Ideas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 95-118.
43 1948 The Position of Sociological Theory . American Sociological Review 13, 164-168.
44 1948 The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Antioch Review (Summer), 193-210.
45 1948 Social Psychology of Housing. In Wayne Dennis, ed. Current Trends in Social Psychology. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 163-217.
46 1948 What do we know about prejudice? The University of Chicago Round Table. Number 528, May 2, 1- 10.
47 1948 Why people vote the way they do. The University of Chicago Round Table. Number 551, October 10, 1-10.
48 1949 Election Polling Forecasts and Public Images of Social Science (with Paul K. Hatt). Public Opinion Quarterly 13, 185-222
49 1949 Social Structure and Anomie: Revisions and Extensions. In Ruth N. Anshen, ed. The Family: Its Functions and Destiny. New York: Harper & Brothers, 226-257.
50 1949 Patterns of Influence: A Study of Interpersonal Influence and Communications Behavior ina Local Community . In Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Frank Stanton, eds. Communications Research, 1948-49. New York: Harper & Brothers, 180-219.
51 1949 The Role of Applied Social Science in the Formation of Policy. Philosophy of Science 16, 161-81. 
52 1950 The American Soldier. University of Chicago Round Table Discussion. Number 692, July 1, 1-12. 
53 1950 Contributions to the Theory of Reference Group Behavior (with Alice Kitt Rossi). In Robert K. Merton and Paul F. Lazarsfeld, eds. Continuities in Social Research. New York: TheFree Press, 40-105.
54 1951 Social Scientists and Research Policy (with Daniel Lerner). In Daniel Lerner and H.D. Lasswell, eds. The Policy Sciences. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 282-307.
55 1951 Large-Scale Community Research in the Epidemiology of Essential Hypertension in Man. In A Symposium on Essential Hypertension, 327-334.
56 1951 The Research Budget. In Marie Jahoda, Morton Deutsch, and Stuart W. Cook, eds. Research Methods in Social Relations. New York: Dryden Press, 342-351.
57 1952 Brief Bibliography for the Sociology of Science (with Bernard Barber). Proceedings, American Academyof Arts & Sciences 80, 2, 140-154.
58 1952 The Social Scientists Reply: An Horrific Caricature. American Scholar Forum. Vol. 21, No.3, Summer, 356-358.
59 1954 Friendship as a Social Process: A Substantive and Methodological Analysis (with Paul Lazarsfeld). In Morroe Berger, Theodore Abel, and Charles Page, eds. Freedom and Control in Modern Society. New York: Van Nostrand, 18-66.
60 1955 The Socio-Cultural Environment and Anomie. In H.L. Witmer and R. Kotinsky, eds. New Perspectives for Research on Juvenile Delinquency . Washington, D . C. U .5. Government Printing Office, 24-50
61 1955 The Knowledge of Man. In Lewis Leary , ed. The Unity of Knowledge. New York: Doubleday &Co., 150-154.
62 1956 Studies in the Sociology of Medical Education (with Samuel Bloom and Natalie Rogoff Ramsey). Journal of Medical Education 31, 552-65.
63 1957 Some Preliminaries to a Sociology of Medical Education. In Robert K. Merton, George C. Reader and Patricia Kendall, eds. The Student-Physician. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 3-79.
64 1957 The Role-Set: Problems in Sociological Theory . British Journal of Sociology 8: 106-120.
65 1957 Priorities in Scientific Discovery: A Chapter in the Sociology of Science. American Sociological Review 22, 6, 635-659.
66 1957 In Memory of Bernhard I. Stern. Science and Society. Vol. XXI, No.1, Winter: 7-9.
67 1958 Procedures for the Sociological Study of the Value Climate of Medical Schools (with Richard Christie). In Helen H. Gee and Robert I. Glaser, eds. The Ecology of the Medical Student. Evanston, IL: Association of American Medical Colleges, 125-153.
68 1958 The Functions of the Professional Association. American Journal of Nursing 58, 50-54.
69 1958 Issues in the Growth of a Profession. Proceedings of the American Nurses' Association aune 10),2-12..
70 1959 Notes on Problem-Finding in Sociology. In Robert K. Merton, Leonard Broom, and Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr., eds. Sociology Today. New York: Basic Books, ix-xxxiv
71 1959 Social Conformity , Deviation and Opportunity Structures. American Sociological Review 24, 2, 177-189.
72 1959 The Scholar and the Craftsman. In Marshall Clagett, ed. Critical Problems in the History of Science. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 24-29
73 1960 "Recognition and "Excellence": Instructive Ambiguities. In Adam Yarmolinsky, ed. Recognition of Excellence. New York: The Free Press, 297-328
74 1960 The Search for Professional Status: Sources, Costs, and Consequences. American Journal of Nursing (May), 662-664.
75 1960 Some Thoughts on the Professions in American Society. Brown University Papers 37, 1-17.
76 1960 The Corporation: Its Coexistence with Men. In Melvin Anshen and George L. Bach, eds. Management and Corporation 1985. New York: McGraw-Hill, 57-61.
77 1960 The History of Quantification in the Sciences. Items 14 (March), 1-5.
78 1961 The Mosaic of the Behavioral Sciences. In Bernard Berelson, ed. The Behavioral Sciences Today.New York: Basic Books
79 1961 Social Problems and Sociological Theory . In Robert K. Merton and Robert A. Nisbet, eds. Contemporary Social Problems. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 697-737.
80 1961 Social Conflict in Styles of Sociological Work. Transactions, Fourth World Congress of Sociology 3, 21-46.
81 1961 The Role of Genius in Scientific Advance. New Scientist (November), 306-08.
82 1961 Now the Case for Sociology: The Canons of the Anti-Sociologist. New York Times Magazine, July 16.
83 1961 Singletons and Multiples in Scientific Discovery . Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 105, no.5 (October): 470-486
84 1961 Status Orientations in Nursing. American Journal of Nursing 62, 70-73.
85 1962 Notes on Sociology in the U.S.S.R. (with Henry Riecken). Current Problems in SocialBehavioral Research. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 7-14.
86 1962 The Role of the Nurse: Locals and Cosmopolitans. NSNA News Letter 9 (Fall), 3-6.
87 1963 Sociological Ambivalence (with Elinor Barber). In Edward A. Tiryakian, ed. Sociological Theory, Values, and Socio-cultural Change. New York: The Free Press, 91-120.
88 1963 The Ambivalence of Scientists. Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (112),77-97.
89 1963 Resistance to the Systematic Study of Multiple Discoveries in Science. European Journal of Sociology 4, 237-82
90 1963 Sorokin's Formulations in the Sociology of Science (with Bernard Barber). In P .J . Allen, ed. P.A. Sorokin in Review. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 332-368.
91 1963 Basic Research and Potentials of Relevance. American Behavioral Scientist 6, 86-90.
92 1964 Anomie, Anomia and Social Interaction: Contexts of Deviant Behavior. In Marshall Clinard, ed. Anomie and Deviant Behavior. New York: The Free Press, 213-242.
93 1964 Practical Problems and the Uses of Social Science (with Edward C. Devereux, Jr.). Trans-Action 1, 18-21.
94 1964 Sources of Stress in Society. Journal of Neuropsychiatry 5,413-313.
95 1965 The Environment of the Innovating Organization. In Gary Steiner, ed. The Creative Organization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 50-65.
96 1966 Dilemmas of Democracy in the Voluntary Association. American Journal of Nursing (May), 1055-1061
97 1968 Making it Scientifically: A Review Essay of The Double Helix. The New York Times Book Review. February 25, 1, 41-43.
98 1968 Observations on the Sociology of Science. Japan-American Forum 14, 4 (April), 18-28.
99 1968 The Matthew Effect in Science: the Reward and Communication Systems of Science are Considered [with Harriet A. Zuckerman]. Science 199, 3810 (January 5), 55-63.
100 1968 Seminars Without Constraints. Columbia University Forum 11, 1 (Winter), 38-39.
101 1969 Foreword to a Preface for an Introduction to a Prolegomenon to a Discourse on a Certain Subject. American Sociologist. Vol. 4, No.2, 99.
102 1969 Sociology , Jargon and Slangish. Subterranean Sociology Newsletter 3, 2 and 3 (April). 
. 1972 In R. Serge Denisoff, ed. Sociology: Theories in Conflict. Belmont,CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 52-58.
103 1969 Behavior Patterns of Scientists. Co-published: American Scientist 57, l(Spring), 1-23. And American Scholar 38,2 (Spring), 197-225.
104 1969 The Social Nature of Leadership, Congress Papers of the 14th Quadrennial Congress. International Council of Nurses. Basel: S. Karger, 310-319.
105 1970 Sociology of Science: An Introduction. In Robert K. Merton, Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England. New York: Howard Fertig, Inc. New York: Harper & Row, paperback ed.
106 1970 The Ambivalence of Organizational Leaders. In James F. Oates, Jr ., The Contradictions of Leadership. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1-26.
107 1971 Insiders and Outsiders: An Essay in the Sociology of Knowledge. In R.N. Saxena, ed. Conspectus of Indian Society. Agra, India: Satish Book Enterprise.
107a   . 1972 Insiders and Outsiders: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge. American Journal of Sociology 77(July): 9-47.
108 1971 Patterns of Evaluation in Science: Institutionalization, Structure and Functions of the Referee System(with Harriet A. Zuckerman). Minerva 9,1 (January), 66-100.
109 1971 The Precarious Foundations of Detachment in Sociology . In Edward A. Tiryakian, ed. The Phenomenon of Sociology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 188-199
110 1971 The Competitive Pressures (I): The Race for Priority (with Richard Lewis). Impact of Science on Society. Vol. XXI, No.2, 151-161.
111 1972 Age, Aging, and Age Structure in Science (with Harriet A. Zuckerman). In Matilda W. Riley, Marilyn Johnson and Ann Foner, eds. A Theory of Age Stratification. Vo13. of Aging and Society. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 292-356.
112 1972 On Discipline Building: The Paradoxes of George Sarton (with Arnold Thackray). ISIS 63, 219, 473-495.
113 1972 A Professional School for Training in Social Research (with Paul F. Lazarsfeld). In Paul F . Lazarsfeld, ed. Qualitative Analysis. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 361-391.
114 1975 Structural Analysis in Sociology . In Peter M. Blau, ed. Approaches to the Study of Social Structure.New York: The Free Press, 21-52.
115 1975 Thematic Analysis in Science: Notes on Holton's Concept. Science, 188 (Apri125), 335-338
116 1975 Social Knowledge and Public Policy . In Mirra Komarovsky, ed. Sociology and Public Policy: The Case of Presidential Commissions. New York: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co
117 1975 George Sarton (with Arnold Thackray). In Charles Coulston Gillispie, ed. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 12, 107-114.
118 1975 On the Origin of the Term: Pseudo-Gemeinschaft. Western Sociological Review, 6, 83.
119 1976 Social Problems and Sociological Theory. In Contemporary Social Problems (edited with Robert Nisbet). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 4th edition., 1-43.
120 1976 The Ambivalence of Scientists: A Postscript. In R.K. Merton, Sociological Ambivalence. New York: Free Press, 56-94.
121 1976 The Uses of Institutionalized Altruism. Seminar Reports (Columbia University), 3, 105-117.
122 1978 The Uses of Institutionalized Altruism: The Case of the Professions (with Thomas F. Gieryn). In ManSingh Das, ed. Sociocultural Change since 1950: Essays in Honor of Carle C. Zimmerman. Bombay: Vikas Publishing Co., 309-344.
123 1978 The Sociological Study of Scientific Specialties (with Thomas F. Gieryn). Social Studies of Science. London: SAGE: 257-261.
124 1979 Remembering Paul Lazarsfeld. In Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Papers in Honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld (edited with James S. Coleman and Peter H. Rossi) New York: Free Press, 19-22.
125 1980 On the Oral Transmission of Knowledge. In Sociological Traditions from Generation to Generation: Glimpses of the American Experience (edited with Matilda White Riley). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1-35.
126 1980 Remembering the Young Talcott Parsons. The American Sociologist, 15 (May), 68-71.
127 1980 The Shoulders of Giants. Columbia, Fall, 27-28.
128 1980 Citation Classic: Social Theory and Social Structure. Current Contents, 21, May 26, 12.
129 1980 On New York Scientists. The Sciences, December 20, 9-10.
130 1981 Merton on New York. Columbia University Record. February 27: 8.
131 1981 On Sociological Ways of Thinking About Thinking and Thought. American Academy of Arts & Sciences Bicentennial Program.
132 1981 Remarks on Theoretical Pluralism. In Continuities in Structural Inquiry (edited with Peter M. Blau).London: Sage Publications, i-vii.
133 1981 Our Sociological Vernacular. Columbia, November, 42-44. 
134 1981 On the Fleckian Sociological Epistemology and Structural Analysis in Sociology . Introduction to thePolish translation of Social Theory and Social Structure, 1-19.
135 1982 Alvin W. Gouldner: Genesis and Growth of a Friendship. Theory and Society, 11, 915-938.
136 1983 Florian Znaniecki: A Short Reminiscence. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 10, 123-126.
137 1983 Client Ambivalence in Professional Relationships: The Problem of Seeking Help from Strangers (with Vanessa Merton and Elinor Barber). In B.M. DePaulo et al., eds., New Directions in Helping, Vol. 2: Help-Seeking. New York: Academic Press, 13-44.
138 1983 Sociology of Science in Poland. Science of Science (Poland), 3, 179-191.
139 1984 Socially Expected Durations: A Case Study of Concept Formation in Sociology . In W. W. Powell And Richard Robbins, eds., Conflict and Consensus: In Honor of Lewis A. Coser, New York: Free Press,262-283.
140 1984 The Fallacy of the Latest Word: The Case of Pietism and Science. American Journal of Sociology, 89, 1091-1121.
141 1984 Texts, Contexts and Subtexts: An Epistolary Foreword. In Louis Schneider, The Grammar of Social Relations. Jay Weinstein, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, ix-xiv.
142 1984 The Kelvin Dictum and Social Science: An Excursion into the History of an Idea (with David L. Sills And Stephen M. Stigler) Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 20, October, 319-331.
142a 1986 In Brenda Spatt, Writing from Sources 2nd edition. New York: St. Martin's Press 27-31.
143 1984 Science and the Fight to be First. Times Literary Supplement. November 2, 70.
144 1985 George Sarton: Episodic Recollections by an Unruly Apprentice. Isis, 76, 477-486.
145 1985 Basic Research and Its Potentials of Relevance. (revised) The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 52, 679-684.
146 1985 The Historicist-Presentist Dilemma. History of Sociology, 6, 137-151.
147 1987 The Focussed Interview & Focus Groups: Continuities and Discontinuities. Public Opinion Quarterly, 51, 550-566.
148 1987 Three Fragments from a Sociologist's Notebooks: Establishing the Phenomenon, Specified Ignorance and Strategic Research Materials. Annual Review of Sociology, 13,1-28.
149 1988 André Cournand, 1895-1988. Memorial Service, Columbia University , March 17. Meriden-Stinehour Press, 21-26.
150 1988 Tribute to a Distinguished Career: Notes on the Retirement of David L. Sills. Items, Social Science Research Council, December, 97-98.
151 1988 Reference Groups, Invisible Colleges and Deviant Behavior in Science. In H.J. O'Gorman ed., Surveying Social Life: Papers in Honor of Herbert H. Hyman. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 174-189
152 1988 Sociological Resonances: The Early Franco Ferrarotti and a Transatlantic Colleague. In R. Cipriani and M.I. Macioti, eds., Omaggio a Franco Ferrarotti. Rome: Siares, 83-91.
153 1988 Some Thoughts on the Concept of Sociological Autobiography. In Matilda White Riley, ed., Sociological Lives. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 17-21.
154 1988 The Matthew Effect in Science, II: Cumulative Advantage and the Symbolism of IntellectualProperty , Isis, 79, 606-623.
154a . 1988 Flemish translation (with a prologue and epilogue as the Inaugural Sarton Lecture).Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen, 33, 325-355.
155 1988 The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on Puritanism, Pietism and Science, 1933-1934. Science in Context. vol.3, no.1, 293-300.
156 1988 Le molteplici origini e il carattere epiceno del termine inglese Scientist. Scientia: L 'Immagine e il Mondo, Commune de Milano, 279-293.
157 1989 Unanticipated consequences and kindred sociological ideas: A personal gloss. In Carlo Mongardini And Simonetta Tabboni, eds. L 'Opera di Robert K. Merton e la sociologia contemporanea. Genova: ECIG, 307-329.The Merton Thesis. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 334-371.
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159 1990 Remarks on Becoming an Honorand of Jagiellonian University: Social Time and Socio-Cognitive Networks. International Sociology. March, vol.5, no.1, 5-10.
160 1990 STS; Foreshadowings of an Evolving Research Program in the Sociology of Science. In I. Bernard Cohen, ed. Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science;
161 1990 Epistolary Notes on the Making of a Sociological Dissertation Classic: The Dynamics of Bureaucracy. In Craig Calhoun, Marshall W. Meyer and W. Richard Scott, eds. Structures of Power and Constraint: Papers in Honor of Peter M Blau. New York: Cambridge University Press, 37-66.
162 1991 Epistolary Notes on the Making of a Sociological Dissertation Classic: The Dynamics of Bureaucracy. In Craig Calhoun, Marshall W. Meyer and W. Richard Scott, eds. Structures of Power and Constraint: Papers in Honor of Peter M Blau. New York: Cambridge University Press, 37-66.
163 1992 Social Science Quotations (with David L. Sills). Current Comments. Institute for Scientific Information. October 26, 4-8.
164 1992 Patterns in the Scholarly Use of Quotations (with David L. Sills). Items. December, vol.46, no.4, 75-76.
165 1993 Tricennial Thoughts. The East Hampton Star. July 1, 11-13.
166 1993 Genesis of the Field of "Science, Technology & Society (STS)" The Journal of Science Policy and Research Management Japanese). Vol. 8, No. 3l4: 200-203.
167 1994 Durkheim's Division of Labor in Society: A Sexagenarian Postscript. Sociological Forum. vo1.19, no.1, 27-36.
168 1994 A Life of Learning: Charles Homer Haskins Lecture. American Council of Learned Societies . An Occasional Paper. No.25.
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169 1994 Scientists' Competitive Behavior Is Not Peculiar to Our Competitive Age. The Scientist, July 25, vol.8, no.15, 12, 14.
170 1995 The Cultural and Social Incorporation of Sociological Knowledge (with Alan Wolfe). The AmericanSociologist, Fall, vol. 26, no.3, 15-38.
171 1995 Opportunity Structure: The Emergence, Diffusion, and Differentiation of a Sociological Concept, 19305-19505. In Advances in Criminological Theory; The Legacy of Anomie Theory, Volume 6. Freda Adler & William S. Laufer, editors. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 3-78.
172 1995 The Thomas Theorem and The Matthew Effect. Social Forces. December, 74(2):379-424.
173 1997 Teaching James Coleman. In Jon Clark, editor. James S. Coleman. London: Falmer Press 351-356. 
174 1997 De-Gendering 'Man of Science': The Genesis and Epicene Character of the Word Scientist. In Kai Erikson, ed. Sociological Visions. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 225-253.
175 1997 On the Evolving Synthesis of Differential Association and Anomie Theory: A Perspective from the Sociology of Science. Criminology, August, vol. 35, no.3, pp. 517-525.
176 1998 Working with Lazarsfeld. In Jacques Lautman and Bernard-Pierre Lécuyer, eds.Paul Lazarsfeld 1901-1976. La Sociologie de Vienne à New York. Paris: L'Harmattan [insert pp].
176a . 1998     Los colegios invisibles en el desarrollo cognitivo de Kuhn. in author, Title, Paidos lberica, S.A., pp. 23-73.
177 2000 On the Garfield Input to the Sociology of Science: A Retrospective Collage. In Blaise Cronin and Helen Barsky Atkins, eds. The Web of Knowledge: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield. Mulford, NJ:Information Today, Inc., 435-448.                                                                                                               .

INTRODUCTIONS & FOREWORDS


1     . 1949 Logan Wilson and and William I. Kolb, Sociological Analysis. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, xi-xiii.                                                                       .
2 1950 George C. Homans, The Human Group. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, xvii-xxiii
3 1951 Bernard Barber, Science and the Social Order, New York: The Free Press, xi-xxiii.
4 1952 Dallas Smythe, New York Television 1951-1952. Urbana, IL: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, iii-viii.
5 1953 Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills, Character and Social Structure. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, vii-ix.
6 1958 Blaine Mercer. The Study of Society . N ew York: Harcourt Brace J ovanovich, v-vi.
7 1960 Harry M. Johnson. Sociology. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, iii-v.
8 1960 The Ambivalences of Le Bon's The Crowd (introduction to the Compass Edition of Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd). New York: Viking Press, v-xxxix.
9 1963 Hubert J. O'Gorman. Lawyers and Matrimonial Cases: A Study of Informal Pressures in PrivateProfessional Practice. New York: The Free Press, vii-xiv.
10 1963 Matilda White Riley, Sociological Research. 2 vols. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, xiii-xv. 
11 1963 Leila A. Sussmann. Dear FDR: A Study of Political Letter-Writing. Totowa, NJ: The Bedminister Press, xiii-xxv.
12 1963 Allen Barton. Social Organization Under Stress. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences – National research Council, xvii-xxxvi.
13 1964 Jacques Ellul. The Technological Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, v-viii.
14 1970 Imogen Seger. Knaurs Buch der Modernen Soziologie. Munich and Berlin: Knaur, 7-10. Italian, English, French translations.
15 1971 Lewis A. Coser. Masters of Sociological Thought. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, vii-viii. 
16 1975 Introduccion a un libro de Marias. Revista de Occidente, 148 (July), 99-111.
. 1986 Julian Marfas. The Structure of Society. University of Alabama Press, ix-xvii.
17 1979 Rose Coser, Training in Ambiguity: Learning Through Doing in a Mental Hospital. New York: Free Press, xi-xiii.
18 1979 The Evolving Grammar of Citation Analysis. Eugene Garfield, Citation Indexing: Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology and Humanities, New York: John Wiley & Sons, vii-xi. 
19 1981 Remarks on Theoretical Pluralism. Continuities in Structural Inquiry (edited with Peter M. Blau). London: Sage Publications, i-viii.
20 1983 Eugene Garfield, Essays of an Information Scientist. Vol. 5: 1981-1983. Philadelphia: ISI Press, xv-xix.
21 1986 André Cournand. From Roots.... to Late Budding: The Intellectual Adventures of a Medical Scientist.NY: Gardner Press, vii-xiii.
22 1986 (with Eugene Garfield). Derek J. de Solla Price, Little Science, Big Science....And Beyond. New York: Columbia University Press, vii-xii. 
23 1986  . Contemporary Classics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Philadelphia: ISI Press, vii-ix.
24 1988 Helen Rose Ebaugh, Becoming an Ex: The Process of Role Exit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ix-xi.
25 1992 Reexamining Democracy: Essays in Honor of Seymour Martin Lipset. Edited by Guy Marks and Larry Diamond. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, ix-xi.
26 1995 Social Roles & Social Institutions: Essays in Honor of Rose Laub Coser. Edited by Judith R. Blau & Norman Goodman. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, vii-viii. 
27 1995 Gerhard Sonnert with the assistance of Gerald Holton. Gender Differences in Science Careers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, ix-xi.
28 1995 The Economic Sociology of Immigration: Essays on Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship.Edited by Alejandro Portes. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, vii-xi.
29 1997 The Future of Anomie Theory. Edited by Nikos Passas and Robert Agnew. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
30 1998 The New Institutionalism in Sociology. Edited by Mary Brinton and Victor Nee. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, xi-xiii.
31 1999 Comparative Anomie Research: Hidden Barriers - Hidden Potential for Social Development. Edited by Peter Atteslander, Bettina Gransow, and John Western (Swiss Academy for Development). Aldershot: Ash gate, xi-xii.

TRANSLATIONS & COMPILATIONS

1974  . Perspectives in Social Inquiry: Classics, Staples, and Precursors in Sociology (compiler and editor, with Aron Halberstam). 40 vols. New York: Arno Press
1975 History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science: Classics, Staples, and Precursors in Sociology (compiler and editor, with Yehuda Elkana, Arnold Thackray and Harriet Zuckerman). 60 vols. New York: Arno Press.
1979 Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact (from the German). Edited with Thaddeus J.Trenn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1980 Dissertations in Sociology (compiler and editor with Harriet A. Zuckerman). New York: Arno Press, 61 volumes.