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Science Sociology
An annotated collection of 2 papers on science sociology, spanning 1938 to 1942. Featuring works by Robert K. Merton — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Science and the Social Order
Robert K. Merton, 1938 · Philosophy of Science, Vol. 5, No. 3
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
Robert K. Merton, 1942 · Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, Vol. 1
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.…