This man collaborated with Elinor Barber to trace the titular word from its 1754 coinage to the twentieth century in his The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity.
This man collaborated with Elinor Barber to trace the titular word from its 1754 coinage to the twentieth century in his The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity. He described the idea that scientific results are the common property of the entire scientific community, dubbed "communalism," which along with universalism and disinterestedness form part of the CUDOS principles known as this man's namesake norms. He imitates the style of Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy in his work On the Shoulders of Giants and in another work, discusses (*) middle-range theory and uses a rain dance to illustrate manifest and latent functions. This proponent of strain theory popularized terms like "role model" and "self-fulfilling prophecy" in his most famous work. For 10 points, name this American sociologist who wrote Social Theory and Social Structure.
This man collaborated with Elinor Barber to trace the titular word from its 1754 coinage to the twentieth century in his The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity.
Robert King Merton