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	Robert K. Merton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Merton shares this view but stresses that at the same time particular institutions are not the only ones able to fulfill these functions; a wide range of functional alternatives may be able to perform the same task.
		Merton is the father of Robert Merton (also known as Robert Merton).
		Merton argues that the central orientation of functionalism is in interpreting data by their consequences for larger structures in which they are implicated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_K._Merton

	Margaret Evans
		Robert Merton’s contributions to Criminology and Sociology may also be measured in the amount of response that he has received with regard to his anomie perspective.
		Merton (1957: 177-179) agreed with Cohen’s statement saying that his theory of anomie is designed to account for some, but not all forms of deviant behavior customarily described as delinquent or criminal.
		Robert Merton was born in 1910 in Philadelphia to immigrant parents (Hunt, 1961:54).
	www.criminology.fsu.edu /crimtheory/merton.htm

	Robert K. Merton
		Merton believed that a middle-range theory is more appropriate for verification purposes, hence his work on "Social Structure and Anomie." His is an alternative to so-called meta-narratives of sociologists like Talcott Parsons.
		Instead, Merton suggests that there is something about American social structure—here, its distribution of wealth and opportunity—that requires crime to maintain society's very stability in the face of structural inequality.
		"Picturing society like a vast machine, Merton argues that a society should best be considered as a cross between the cultural "goals" of a society—what it holds its members should strive for—and the "means" that are believed, legally or morally, to be legitimate ways that individuals should attain these goals.
	www.geocities.com /fred_magdalena/merton.html

	Robert Merton Bios
		Robert Merton has been one of the most influential theorists of this century and has gained recognition and praise for his numerous works including: Social Theory and Social Structure (New York: Free Press, 1949; rev. ed.
		Merton wrote about the dysfunctional aspects of bureaucracy and was one of the first social scientists to reveal the inefficiencies and "red tape" related to bureaucracies.
		Merton’s collaborative work with Paul Lazarsfeld, an Austrian-born American sociologist, is as prolific and as well recognized as his own individual efforts.
	www.utexas.edu /coc/journalism/SOURCE/j363/merton.html

	The Scientist :: Robert K. Merton dies , Feb. 25, 2003
		Merton is survived by his wife, sociologist Harriet Zuckerman, whose interviews with American Nobel laureates formed part of the basis for his inquiries into the reward system of science and the channels of communication that determine which ideas survive and which do not.
		To Merton, turning out impressive students who could stand the test of time was as important as publishing the accessible pieces of analysis for which he was known — writings designed to illuminate the workings of society for people outside of academia.
		Merton was a member of The Scientist 's advisory board from the time of the publication's founding in 1986.
	www.biomedcentral.com /news/20030225/01

	HBS Publications - Robert C. Merton
		Merton, Robert C. "On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital is Not Tradeable." In Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System, edited by Z. Bodie and J. Shoven.
		Merton, Robert C. An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Loan Guarantees and Deposit Insurance: An Application of Modern Option Pricing Theory." Journal of Banking and Finance 1 (June 1977).
		Merton, Robert C. "On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There are Surveillance Costs." Journal of Business 51 (July 1978).
	dor.hbs.edu /fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=pub&facEmId=rmerton

	SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
		Merton's discussion as such begins with his clarification of what sociological theory is like by analytically separating it from the other five scientific activities which a number of other scholars always confuse with theory itself.
		Merton is interested in one limited aspect of science as an institution and that is the cultural values and mores governing the activities termed scientific ('the ethos of science').
		According to Merton, the concept of relative deprivation has a kinship to such well-known sociological concepts as 'social frame of reference,' 'patterns of expectation,' or 'definition of the situation.' Relative deprivation is defined as a state of dissatisfaction resulting from the act of comparing one's own situation with that of others.
	www.spc.uchicago.edu /ssr1/PRELIMS/Theory/thmisc2.html

	Robert Merton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Merton is also the son of Robert K. Merton, a distinguished sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy."
		In 2002, Merton threw himself into the public controversy over how corporations ought to account for the stock options they often award as parts of a compensation package.
		Merton himself is among the advocates of stock options expensing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Merton

	Columbia News ::: Renowned Columbia Sociologist and National Medal of Science Winner Robert K. Merton Dies at 92
		Merton retired from teaching in 1979 and was named Special Service Professor -- a title reserved by Columbia's Trustees for emeritus faculty who "render special service to the University." Columbia established the Robert K. Merton Professorship in the Social Sciences in 1990.
		Merton is survived by his wife, sociologist Harriet Zuckerman; one son, Robert C. Merton; two daughters, Stephanie Tombrello and Vanessa Merton; nine grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
		Merton, who lived in Manhattan, was an institution at Columbia, joining the faculty in 1941 and helping to build one of the most prominent sociology departments in the world through the relentless pursuit of subtle patterns in society.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/03/02/robertKMerton.html

	Anomie
		Merton isn't saying that every individual exposed to these cultural conflicts reacts the same way; on the contrary, his typology is designed to allow for variation at the individual level.
		The U.S., in fact, Merton sees as a polar example of a society in which success goals (often defined primarily in monetary terms) are emphasized for everyone in the culture, and people are criticized as being quitters if they scale back their goals.
		Merton works within the overall functionalist perspective that we have already addressed, which puts a great deal of emphasis on the role of culture, particularly its unifying aspects, but now Merton adapts a concept he borrows from Durkheim to analyze situations in which culture creates deviance and disunity.
	www.d.umn.edu /~bmork/2306/Theories/BAManomie.htm

	Robert K. Merton Remembered
		Robert Merton is survived by his wife and collaborator Harriet Zuckerman, by three children, nine grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren—and by thousands of sociologists whose work is shaped every day by his.
		Merton's reaction to my paper was to treat me (then at an early stage of career) as colleague, increasingly as friend, and in a decades-long exchange of reprints and letters, and in occasional meetings, to warmly encourage my work, even (with Harriet Zuckerman) to resurrect my little-known PhD thesis in their series, Dissertations in Sociology.
		Merton’s book became famous enough to be known (at least among initiates) by the acronym “OTSOG.” This was partly because it was so engagingly written, a scholarly detective story in the form of an epistolary novel (remember Merton’s early reading of Tristram Shandy).
	www.asanet.org /footnotes/mar03/indextwo.html

	House Atreides - Robert K. Merton
		Merton recognizes five levels of relationship to the norms of the unit which vary according to the individual’s acceptance of either the Goals of the Society or its Means, or both, or Neither.
		or me, it is Merton’s stress on the necessity of examining social phenomena for their unintended consequences, for the "unadvertised" effects they produce, that is most striking.
		For that relationship which fully accepts both, Merton applies the label Conformity.
	www.cdharris.net /text/merton.html

	News about Robert K. Merton death
		Robert K. Merton, who died on Feb. 23, was characterized in a February 24, 2003, New York Times obituary as a "versatile sociologist and father of the focus group." He lived in Manhattan and was 92 years old when he died.
		Merton was a Past-President of ASA (1957) and one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century.
		Merton studied the sociology of science itself and developed in 1942 an "ethos of science," which challenged a common public perception of scientists as eccentric geniuses free of normal social constraints.
	www.asanet.org /public/merton_death.html

	Thomas Merton and Robert Lax: A Friendship in Letters
		This speech, Thomas Merton and Robert Lax: A Friendship in Letters, was given at the first general meeting of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland in Southampton, England, in May of 1996.
		While Merton was teaching English at Saint Bonaventure University in Western New York State in 1940 and 1941, Lax worked at the New Yorker magazine and did volunteer work at Friendship House, a Catholic social ministry in New York City.
		The earliest letter was written by Merton to Lax on 17 June 1938 on TM's return to New York City after his first visit to Olean, New York, where he spent a week with Lax's family.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /thomasmerton/biddle.htm

	Robert Carhart Merton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Carhart Merton (born July 31, 1944), a leading scholar in the field of finance, was one of three men who, in the early 1970s, developed the mathematics of the stock options markets.
		Merton was born in New York, New York and received his Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Engineering and Applied Science of Columbia University.
		Merton published a paper on the subject simultaneous with the publication of another paper, reaching essentially the same conclusions, by Fischer Black and Myron S. Scholes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Carhart_Merton (429 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Robert Merton
		Merton, Robert C., born in 1944, American economist and Nobel Prize winner.
		Solow, Robert Merton, born in 1924, American economist and recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics.
		Merton, Robert K. criminology, quotation, son, Robert C. Merton
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	Robert Merton
		Robert Merton argues that both human goals and constraints on behaviour are socially based(we learn them), and that desires are socially derived, via socialisation, into cultural goals such as occupational status or financial success.
		Merton argues that strain occurs as a result of the frustrations and injustices emerging from the interrelationship between cultural goals, cultural norms and the institutionalised opportunities available within the social structure.
		Merton's analysis suggests that deviant behaviour is functional, first for the individuals involved, since it enables them to adapt to the circumstances in which they find themselves, and second for society as a whole, since modes of individual adaptation help to maintain the boundaries between acceptable and non-acceptable forms of behaviour
	www.homestead.com /rouncefield/files/a_soc_dev_14.htm (429 words)

	Learn more about Robert K. Merton in the online encyclopedia.
		Robert K. Merton ( July 5, 1910 - February 23, 2003) is a distinguished sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase " self-fulfilling prophecy." He also coined many other phrases that have gone into everyday use, such as "role model".
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	Robert Merton To Speak at SIAM's Toronto Meeting
		A key part of the landmark 1973 paper presenting the Black–Scholes formula for pricing options, according to the late Fisher Black, was Robert C. Merton's arbitrage argument for deriving the formula.
		Merton's talk is one of many sessions on financial mathematics scheduled for the meeting, beginning with a short course, "The Mathematics of Financial Risk Management," to be presented by Luis A. Seco of the University of Toronto, on Sunday, July 12, and continuing with two invited talks and several minisymposia.
		Merton, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics with Myron Scholes, will give the I.E. Block Community Lecture in Toronto on Tuesday, July 14, at the 1998 SIAM Annual Meeting.
	www.siam.org /siamnews/05-98/toronto.htm (429 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / A scholar's serendipity
		Merton's afterword also includes a moving autobiographical sketch that remarks on the serendipity of a working-class boy from Philadelphia growing up down the street from a well-stocked and intelligently staffed public library.
		Merton might well have had his name linked to one more concept, "serendipity," but for a peculiar decision of his.
		Merton first stumbled on it in the Oxford English Dictionary as a graduate student in the 1930s.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/02/01/a_scholars_serendipity (429 words)

	Merton, A Life of Learning (ACLS Occasional Paper No. 25)
		For it was the philanthropic Wilhelm Merton who founded the Academy that eventually became the University of Frankfurt where the group advocating critical theory located its Institute for Social Research, later known as “the Frankfurt School” of social philosophy, sociology, politics and economics.
		Professor Merton, a native of Philadelphia (where the Lecture was delivered on April 28), was educated at Temple University (B.A., 1931) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1936).
		In recognition of this and subsequent work, especially On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript, Merton was awarded a prize for “distinguished accomplishment in humanistic scholarship” by the ACLS in 1962.
	www.acls.org /op25.htm (429 words)

	MSN Encarta - Robert Merton
		Merton, Robert C. Merton, Robert C., born in 1944, American economist and Nobel Prize winner.
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		Robert Merton Solow (1924-), economista estadounidense, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Ciencias EconÃ³micas en 1987 por su contribuciÃ³n a la...
		Robert C. Merton (1944-Â ), economista estadounidense, premio Nobel de Ciencias EconÃ³micas en 1997, compartido con Myron S. Scholes.
		Robert King Merton (1910-2003), sociÃ³logo estadounidense, realizÃ³ importantes aportaciones a la teorÃa social del funcionalismo.
	mx.encarta.msn.com /Robert_Merton_Solow.html (429 words)

	Robert C. Merton - Autobiography
		Robert Solow, Frank Fisher, Robert Bishop, Evsey Domar, Peter Diamond, Peter Temin, and Ed Kuh as teachers, I must confess that my focus was more on research than classes from the beginning (and my course grades reflected that).
		We devoted much energy to and derived enormous pleasure from raising three wonderful and talented children, Samantha J., Robert F., and Paul J. June and I separated in 1996.
		Presented first at a Harvard-MIT graduate student seminar in November 1968, my paper on lifetime consumption and portfolio selection under uncertainty was published the following August as a companion paper to one by Paul investigating the effect of age on portfolio risk tolerance.
	nobelprize.org /economics/laureates/1997/merton-autobio.html (429 words)

	Robert K. Merton
		Robert King Merton ( July 5, 1910 - February 23, 2003) is a distinguished sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase " self-fulfilling prophecy." He also coined many other phrases that have gone into everyday use, such as "role model".
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/robert_k__merton (429 words)

	Robert Merton Solow
		Robert Merton Solow is an American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth.
		He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1961 and the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1987.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Solow.html (429 words)

	About Robert Merton
		Robert C. Merton, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at the Harvard Business School, won the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in the Economic Sciences in 1997.
		Merton is past president of the American Finance Association and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
		Merton earned his bachelor of science in engineering and mathematics from Columbia University and his master's degree in applied mathematics from California Institute of Technology.
	www.math.cmu.edu /users/nw0z/abstracts/merton-about.html (429 words)

	Merton - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Merton died as a result of an accident in Thailand while attending...Contemplation in a World of Action (1971), The Journals of Thomas Merton (Vol.
		MERTON, THOMAS 1915 68, American religious writer and poet...ordained a priest and is known in religion as Father M. Louis.
		...of Public Confidence: Lazarsfeld and Merton Revisited By Peter Simonson In this...confidence by extending Lazarsfeld and Mertons status conferral function.
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	NYTimes.com Review Paid Notice: Deaths MERTON, ROBERT K.
		MERTON, ROBERT K. MERTON-Robert K. It is with great sorrow that the American Academy of Arts and Sciences mourns the death of Robert K. Merton, distinguished sociologist, recipient of the Academy's Talcott Parsons Prize in the Social Sciences, and a Fellow of this society for over a half-century.
		The Academy extends its condolences to his wife, Harriet Zuckerman, and his son, Robert C. Merton-both Fellows of the Academyand to his entire family.
		Professor Merton devoted a lifetime to expanding our understanding of human actions and motives in works that combined historical penetration, analytic rigor, deep psychological insight, and an uncommon interest in all fields of knowledge.
	query.nytimes.com /search/full-page?res=9503EEDF123CF934A15751C0A9659C8B63 (429 words)

	Robert Lax - Mystic Poet
		Merton writes of his exciting trip to Asia and Lax sends one last letter to Merton on December 8th which Merton never read before his death.
		In trying to figure out his initial interest in Merton and Lax he said, "God does make accidents!" His reference of course meaning that God's hand was in the encounter.
		Beginning with Merton's entrance into Gethsemani, this section covers the years 1942-1951.
	edge.edge.net /~dphillip/Lax.html (429 words)

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