List of Illustrations and Tables, Book Concept and Preface, Yehuda Elkana Note to Sound and Sculpture, Amos Elkana and Alexander Polzin Introduction
1. The Paradoxes of Robert K. Merton: Fragmentary Reflections, Arnold Thackray
2. Looking for Shoulders to Stand on, or for a Paradigm for the Sociology of Science, Anna Wessely
3. R. K. Merton in France: Foucault, Bourdieu, Latour and the Invention of Mainstream Sociology in Paris, Jean-Louis Fabiani
4. Merton in South Asia: The Question of Religion and the Modernity of Science, Dhruv Raina
5. The Contribution of Rober K. Merton’s Key Concepts to the Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Society, Cynthia Epstein
6. A Tribute to Robert Merton: Protestant and Catholic Ethics Revisited, Rivka Feldhay
7. The Concept of Ambivalence in the Relationship between Science and Society, Helga Nowotny
8. Re-evaluating the Place of Science in Evaluating Modernity, Gabriel Motzkin
9. Democracy and the Normative Structure of Science After Modernity, Yaron Ezrahi
10. The Matthew Effect Writ Large and Larger: A Study in Sociological Semantics, Harriet Zuckerman
11. Repetition With Variation: A Mertonian Inquiry Into a Lost Mertonian Concept, Charles Camic
12. Robert K. Merton and the Tansformation of Sociology of Knowledge and Possible New Directions, Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, Bibliography, List of Contributors