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social science subjects > sociology > social theory > American social theory > Robert Merton
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Robert Merton  

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  • Robert K. Merton is among the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century. He is the founder of a sophisticated variety of structural functionalism, the originator of modern sociology of science, and a prolific contributor to the conceptual and theoretical resources of several sociological disciplines.He was born on July 4, 1910, in Philadelphia, and died February 24, 2003 in New York. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Merton, Robert]

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