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    Robert K. Merton was a sociologist born in Philadelphia to Jewish immigrants. He changed his name as a teenager and studied sociology at Temple College and Harvard, earning his PhD in 1936. Merton taught at Harvard and Tulane University before joining Columbia University in 1941, where he became a University Professor. He made contributions to functional analysis, reference groups, middle range theories, and theories of deviance such as strain theory. Merton advocated that sociological theories should be fact-driven and address empirical realities rather than abstract speculation.

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    Robert K. Merton was a sociologist born in Philadelphia to Jewish immigrants. He changed his name as a teenager and studied sociology at Temple College and Harvard, earning his PhD in 1936. Merton taught at Harvard and Tulane University before joining Columbia University in 1941, where he became a University Professor. He made contributions to functional analysis, reference groups, middle range theories, and theories of deviance such as strain theory. Merton advocated that sociological theories should be fact-driven and address empirical realities rather than abstract speculation.

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    ROBERT KING

    MERTON(1910-
    2003)
    Dr.NC VAMSHI KRISHNA
    FACULTY FOR SOCIOLOGY
    BIOGRAPHY

    • Robert K. Merton was born Meyer R. Schkolnick in


    Philadelphia into a working class Eastern European
    Jewish Immigrant family.
    • He changed his name at the age of 14 to Robert
    Merton, which evolved out of a teenage career as
    an amateur magician as he blended the names of
    famous magicians.
    • Merton attended Temple College for
    undergraduate work and Harvard for graduate
    work, studying sociology at both and earning his
    doctorate degree in 1936.
    • Merton taught at Harvard until 1938 when he
    became professor and chairman of the
    Department of Sociology at Tulane University.
    • In 1941 he joined the Columbia University
    faculty where he was named to the
    University's highest academic rank, University
    Professor, in 1974.
    • In 1979 Merton retired from the University
    and became an adjunct faculty member at
    Rockefeller University and was also the first
    Foundation Scholar at the Russell Sage
    Foundation. He retired from teaching
    altogether in 1984
    Emile Durkheim

    INSPIRED BY Pitrim Sorokin

    Chicago School
    Middle Range Theories.

    Functional Analysis.

    HIS WORKS Theories of Deviance- The Strain theory.

    Reference Groups.

    Others like Mertonian Science, Serendipity etc.


    MIDDLE RANGE THEORIES
    His theory advocates that
    Middle range theories of R.K
    theory building in sociology
    Merton came as rejection of
    should not be governed by
    mega theory of Parsonian
    intellectual aggression or
    sociology.
    academic speculation.

    Rather theories are developed


    Sociological theories cannot
    in sociology to arrange the
    afford to be rogue, unrealistic,
    empirical facts in a consolidated
    jargon focused and simply
    manner. Hence sociological
    logical.
    theories should be fact driven.
    FUNCTIONAL
    PARADIGM
    OF MERTON
    IMPORTANCE OF DYSFUNCTIONS
    EXAMPLE
    DEVIANCE- THEORIES

    NEXT CLASS
    MERTONS THEORY ON
    DEVIANCE

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