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"The extreme emphasis upon the accumulation of wealth as a symbol of success in our society militates against the completely effective control of institutionally regulated modes of acquiring a fortune."
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Robert K. MertonThe ethos of science involves the functionally necessary demand that t — Robert K. Merton
"The ethos of science involves the functionally necessary demand that theories or generalizations be evaluated in [terms of] their logical consistency and consonance with facts."
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Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton
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Robert King Merton was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology. He served as the 47th president of the American Sociological Association. He spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University, where he attained the rank of University Professor. In 1994 he was awarded the National Medal of Science
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"No man knows fully what has shaped his own thinking"
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"Scientific research is not conducted in a social vacuum."
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"By social structure is meant that organized set of social relationships in which members of the society or group are variously implicated."
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"So much of what he says is so absolutely obvious, so transparently true, that one cant imagine why no one else has bothered to point it out."
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"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-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning."
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