Contenidos: The institutionalization of scientific investigation / Talcott Parsons --
Science and the social order / Robert K. Merton --
Puritanism, pietism, and science / Robert K. Merton --
Science and economy of seventeenth-century England / Robert K. Merton --
Science in the French revolution / Charles Coulston Gillispie --
American indifference to basic science during the nineteenth century / Richard Harrison Shryock --
Soviet scientists and the great break / David Joravsky --
How free is Soviet science? Technology under totalitarianism / Leopold Labedz --
Can prediction become a science? / S. Lilley --
Public opinion about science and scientists / Stephen B. Withey --
The origins of U.S. scientists / H.B. Goodrich, R.H. Knapp, George A.W. Boehm --
The younger American scholar / Robert H. Knapp, Joseph J. Greenbaum --
Undergraduate origins of American scientists / John L. Holland --
Some unsolved problems of the scientific career / Lawrence S. Kubie --
The image of the scientist among high-school students: a pilot study / Margaret Mead, Rhoda Métraux --
The college-student image of the scientist / David C. Beardslee, Donald D. O'Dowd --
The image of the scientist in science fiction: a content analysis / Walter Hirsch --
Scientists and politicians / Harry S. Hall --
The elements of identification with an occupation / Howard S. Becker, James Carper --
Scientific productivity and academic organization in nineteenth-century medicine / Joseph Ben-David --
Creativity and the scientist / Morris I. Stein --
Nine dilemmas in industrial research / Herbert A. Shepard --
Some social factors related to performance in a research organization / Donald C. Pelz --
Research administration and the administrator: U.S.S.R. and U.S. / Norman Kaplan --
Scientists: solo or concerted? / A.H. Cottrell --
American universities and federal research / Charles V. Kidd --
Planned and unplanned scientific communication / Herbert Menzel --
Priorities in scientific discovery: a chapter in the sociology of science / Robert K. Merton --
Energy conservation as an example of simultaneous discovery / Thomas S. Kuhn --
The exponential curve of science / Derek J. Price --
The case of the floppy-eared rabbits: an instance of serendipity gained and serendipity lost / Bernard Barber, Renée C. Fox --
Resistance of scientists to scientific discovery / Bernard Barber --
Which scientists win Nobel Prizes? / George W. Gray --
Science as a vocation / Max Weber --
Some aspects of the relation between social science and ethics / Talcott Parsons --
Scientists and American science policy / Wallace S. Sayre --
The autonomy of science / Edward A. Shils --
Malicious philosophies of science / Ernest Nagel