Person
Robert K Merton
Sociologist of unintended consequences, bureaucracy, and the normative structure of science.
Why this matters
Merton's patterns—manifest and latent function—help read how incentives reproduce behavior.
Works2 sources
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Bureaucratic Structure and Personality.
Merton, Robert K. "Bureaucratic Structure and Personality." Social Forces 18, no. 4 (1940): 560–568.
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The Normative Structure of Science.
Merton, Robert K. "The Normative Structure of Science." In The Sociology of Science, edited by Norman W. Storer, 267–278. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. First published 1942.
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