Institutions
An annotated collection of 3 books & papers on institutions, spanning 1922 to 1942. Featuring works by Max Weber, Robert K. Merton — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Bureaucracy
The foundational analysis of bureaucracy as a technology of coordination, not a pejorative. Weber described an ideal type: hierarchical authority, written rules, specialised roles, impersonal procedures — a machine for m…
Science and the Social Order
Merton's earlier essay — the companion to The Normative Structure of Science — on the relationship between scientific practice and the broader social order that either supports or undermines it. Written in 1938, the essa…
The Normative Structure of Science
Merton's 1942 essay codifies the norms that he argued had made science work: communalism, universalism, disinterestedness, organised scepticism — the CUDOS norms that became the founding text of the sociology of science.…