The sociology of science
- New York : Glencoe, 1962
- 662 p.
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