Social Theory

Social Theory and Social Structure (STSS) was a landmark publication in sociology by Robert K. Merton. It has been translated into close to 20 languages and is one of the most frequently cited texts in social sciences.[1] It was first published in 1949, although revised editions of 1957 and 1968 are often cited.

The book introduced many important concepts in sociology, like: manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions, obliteration by incorporation, reference groups, self-fulfilling prophecy, middle-range theory and others.[Merton, 1980]

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1 Works
2 Awards
3 See also
4 References
5 External links


Piotr Sztompka (born 1944) is professor of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Sztompka has also taught as visiting professor at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Rome, and Tischner European University.


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System and Function (Studies in Anthropology, 1974).
Sociological Dilemmas (1979).
Robert K. Merton: an Intellectual Profile (1986)
The New Technological Challenge and Socialist Societies (editor, 1987).
Rethinking Progress (with Jeffrey C. Alexander, 1990).
Society in Action: the Theory of Social Becoming (1991).
Sociology in Europe: in Search of Identity (with Birgitta Nedelmann, 1993).
The Sociology of Social Change (1993).
Agency and Structure: Reorienting Social Theory (International Studies in Global Change, vol. 4; editor, 1994).
Robert K. Merton, On Social Structure and Science (editor, 1996).
Trust: a Sociological Theory (1999).

[edit] Awards
New Europe Prize.