The Three Merton Theses

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2404577
AutoresVidar Enebakk (University of Oslo, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen7
Número2
Páginas221-238
Fecha de publicación2007-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Classical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-795X • E-ISSN: 1741-2897
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468795x07078040
OpenAlexW2110874705
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas25

In this article I examine the historical background to Merton's formulation of the scientific ethos, especially in relation to his dissertation, published in 1938 as Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth-Century England. Here Merton outlined the so-called 'Merton thesis', and I emphasize how both the content and the context of the monograph is related to his formulation of an 'ethos of science' - introduced for the first time in 1938 in 'Science and the Social Order'. Three different readings can, however, highlight different aspects of Merton's monograph, thus the article attempts to enrich the understanding both of the ethos of science and of Merton as a politically engaged social scientist by discussing 'The Three Merton Theses

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Ethos · Order (exchange · Political science · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education