Definition of Robert Merton

1. Noun. United States sociologist (1910-2003).

Exact synonyms: Merton, Robert King Merton
Generic synonyms: Sociologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Robert Merton

Robert Hutchings Goddard
Robert I
Robert James Fischer
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
Robert Joffrey
Robert King Merton
Robert Koch
Robert Lee Frost
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Lowell
Robert M. Yerkes
Robert MacGregor
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Robert Mearns Yerkes
Robert Merton (current term)
Robert Mills
Robert Mitchum
Robert Morris
Robert Motherwell
Robert Nesta Marley
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Orr
Robert Owen
Robert Peary
Robert Peel
Robert Penn Warren
Robert R. Livingston
Robert Ranke Graves
Robert Redford

Literary usage of Robert Merton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Social Sciences and Innovation by Oecd (2001)
"The work of Robert Merton and other sociologists has shown how the ... I refer here to the early, fundamental insights of Robert Merton (Robert Merton the ..."

2. Remember Your Humanity: International Student/Young Pugwash Yearbook 2005 by Arthur Petersen, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra (2006)
"The sociologist of science Robert Merton originally formulated the CUDOS set of norms in an article of 1942, reprinted in Robert Merton, The Sociology of ..."

3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1844)
"Sawyer, Robert, Merton. Skeffington, Hon. Henry R. //;..•,.--.. Stevenson, Seth W. St. Mary's Hall. ..."

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