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 A
Merton receiving honorary degree, Leiden University, 1965
Talcott Parsons
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Talcott Parsons was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures
Robert K. Merton
…Technology, and Society in Seventeenth-Century England, which helped create the sociology of science. Merton's dissertation committee comprised Sorokin, Talcott Parsons, the historian George Sarton, and the biochemist Lawrence Joseph Henderson. Merton's thesis—similar to Max Weber's famous claim about a link between…
Talcott Parsons
Parsons in the Amherst College yearbook, 1924