Sociological Traditions from Generation to Generation: Glimpses of the American Experience

by Robert K. Merton

Book Overview

This book provides insight into the lives and contributions of eigth master sociologists as perceived by their outstanding students. It provides perspectives on evolving cognitive traditions and the oral transmission of knowledge, the emergence of new ideas, the role of continuity and discontinuity in the developments of science, and the relations of these to social change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893910619
• ISBN13: 9780893910617
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"