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Fashions in science : opinion leaders and collective behavior in the social sciences

Title
  1. Fashions in science : opinion leaders and collective behavior in the social sciences / Irwin Sperber.
Published by
  1. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1990.
Author
  1. Sperber, Irwin.

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Description
  1. xix, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Sociology > Philosophy
  2. Sociologists > Psychology
  3. Social sciences > Research > Moral and ethical aspects
  4. Professional ethics
  5. Philosophy
  6. Social sciences
  7. Sociology
  8. Ethics, Professional
  9. Philosophy
  10. Research Design
  11. Social Sciences
  12. Sociology
  13. professional ethics
  14. philosophy
  15. social sciences
  16. sociology
  17. Social sciences
  18. Professional ethics
  19. Social sciences > Research > Moral and ethical aspects
  20. Sociologists > Psychology
  21. Sociology > Philosophy
  22. Forschung
  23. Psychologie
  24. Sozialpsychologie
  25. Sozialwissenschaften
  26. Soziologie
  27. Sociologia > Filosofia
  28. Ciències socials Investigació > Aspectes ètics i morals
  29. Social sciences and ethics
Contents
  1. Introduction: scope and precedents for the study of fashion and science -- The embarrassment of riches, the nature of scholarly debate, and the call for a sociological Newton -- Ambiguity and the fashion process in Kuhn's study of scientific revolution -- The fashion process and the scientific community -- Sorokin, Merton, and the many faces of the fashion process -- The functional theory of inequality: the problem of rewarding merit or mediocrity -- Review of the themes developed in the study of fashions in science.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 289-296.