Open AccessMerton's Sociology of Science: The First and the Last Sociology of Science?
Author(s) -
Karin Knorr Cetina,
Jon Clark,
Celia Modgil,
Sohan Modgil,
I. Bernard Cohen,
K. E. Duffin,
Stuart Strickland,
Rivka Feldhay,
Yehuda Elkana,
Robert Κ. Merton,
Marjorie Fiske,
Patricia L. Kendall,
Carlo Mongardini,
Simonetta Tabboni
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
contemporary sociology a journal of reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.522
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1939-8638
pISSN - 0094-3061
DOI - 10.2307/2071782
Subject(s) - sociology , medical sociology , social science , sociology of scientific knowledge , epistemology , philosophy , medicine , nursing , public health
Merton the founder of the sociology of science Even his enemies admit that Merton is the founder of the sociology of science. When he published his classic Science, Technology, and Society in Seventeenth-Centiiry England in 1938. the sociology of science was not a recognized field. Fifty years later, an abundance of programs of instruction and centers of research in social studies of science and technology can be found in the United States and Europe, and the status of sociology of science as an academic subdiscipline is beyond question. To be sure, there were other books produced on science, technology, and society at the time of Merton's publication, most notably Bemal's famous The Social Konstanzer Online-Publikations-System (KOPS)
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