Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and WhereRobert Merton Social Science Quotations has been prepared to meet an evident, unmet need in the literature of the social sciences. Writings on the lives and theories of individual social scientists abound, but there has been no fully documented collection of memorable quotations from the social sciences as a whole. The frequent use of quotations in scientific as well as literary writings that are mere summaries or paraphrases typically fail to capture the full force of formulations that have made quotations memorable. This book of quotations invites the further reading or rereading of the original texts, beyond the quotations themselves. Sills and Merton draw extensively upon the writings that constitute the historical core of the social sciences and social thought; those works with staying power often described as the "classical texts." Many quotations have been drawn from these classical texts because the quotations contain memorable ideas memorably expressed. Both consequential and memorable, these words have been quoted over the generations, entering into the collective memory of social scientists everywhere and at times diffusing into popular thought and into the vernacular as well. This book is useful to social scientists, anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists and statisticians, and for all who want to learn or verify memorable formulations and phrases concerning social thought and social theories. It is particularly useful for graduate students taking courses that examine the history of their discipline. |
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... University Press, Oxford. Frost, Robert. From The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Latham. Copyright 1930, 1939, © 1969 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Copyright © 1958 by Robert Frost. Copyright © 1967 by Lesley Frost ...
... University of Pennsylvania Robert Amdur Columbia University Abram Amsel University of Texas Solomon E. Asch Princeton, New Jersey Barbara Babcock University of Arizona Bernard Bailyn Harvard University John D. Baldwin University of ...
... University and New York University Peter J. Behrens Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Piers Beirne University of Southern Maine Daniel Bell Harvard University Reinhard Bendix University of California, Berkeley Lee Benson University of ...
... University Albert H. Cantril Harvard University Theodore Caplow University of Virginia Robert Carneiro American Museum of Natural History (New York) Bliss Camochan Stanford University John J. Cerullo University of New Hampshire Ranjit ...
... University of Auckland Jacqueline L. Cunningham University of Texas G. David Curry University of Chicago Robert A. Dahl Yale University Ralf Dahrendorf St. Antony's College (Oxford) Kurt Danziger York University Robert Darnton Princeton ...
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Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where David L. Sills,Robert King Merton Limited preview - 2000 |