The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
One of the leading American sociologists of the 20th century, Robert K. Merton was a theorist who believed deeply in formulating questions in a way that they could be empirically tested – theories of...
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Robert K. Merton (1936) was responsible for many other sociological ideas captured in phrases that became widely used in ordinary conversation. A further example is the now famous Law of...
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Merton is also responsible for the modern usage of the term “anomie.” Drawing upon the 19th century work of the great French sociologist, Émile Durkheim, Merton applied the idea of anomie to the...
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