Author J. R. R. Tolkien was a Merton Professor of English Language and Literature

passage is from R. K. Merton's " A Life of Learning ", which is reprinted in R. K. Merton, 1996.

* Merton, R. ( 1938 ).

* Schofield, R. B., ( 2000 ) Benjamin Outram, Cardiff: Merton Priory Press

* P. F. Lazarsfeld, R. K. Merton ( 1954 ).

* Schofield, R. B., ( 2000 ) Benjamin Outram, Cardiff: Merton Priory Press

* Schofield, R. B., ( 2000 ) Benjamin Outram, Cardiff: Merton Priory Press

* 1990 Victor R. Fuchs / Merton Miller

* The Idea of Social Structure, Papers in Honor of R. K. Merton, 1975

* The Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, ( edited by T. J. Trenn and R. K. Merton, foreword by Thomas Kuhn ) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

Emile Merton was for a time in the family metal trading business as a partner in Henry R. Merton & Co. which was started in London by his eldest brother in 1860.

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.

" Artists and arts supporters gathered for Spiral, such as Emma Amos, Perry Ferguson and Merton Simpson.

The footbridge has been re-erected at Corfe Castle station on the Swanage Railway ( although some evidence suggests that this was a similar footbridge removed from the site of Merton Park Railway Station.

* 1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author ( b. 1915 )

Robert K. Merton comments that Sumner's additional characterization robbed the concept of some analytical power because, Merton argues, centrality and superiority are often correlated, but need to be kept analytically distinct.

He went to school at Eastbourne College, before going on to study at University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and at Merton College, Oxford.

Merton Priory Press.

* 1910 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist ( d. 2003 )

From 1954, he attended Rutlish Grammar School in Merton.

After a year at Merton College, Oxford, Simcoe was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, but then decided to follow the military career for which his father had intended him.

Members of LTCM's board of directors included Myron S. Scholes and Robert C. Merton, who shared the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a " new method to determine the value of derivatives ".

In 1944 Polanyi was elected a member of the Royal Society, and on his retirement from the University of Manchester in 1958 he was elected a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.

* 1904 – Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, British politician ( d. 1983 )

New Malden is a small town and shopping centre in the south-western London suburbs, mostly within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and partly in the London Borough of Merton, and is situated from Charing Cross.

In 1942, Robert K. Merton identified a small set of " norms " which characterized what makes a real science.

If any of the norms were violated, Merton determined the enterprise to be nonscience.

Hence, it is a popular English usage in the underground comic book Merton of the Movement, by Bobby London, while ideologically sound, an alternative term, followed a like lexical path, appearing in Bart Dickon ’ s satirical comic strips.

This success turned Whitehouse and Higson's career, and they began to appear on shows such as Vic Reeves ' Big Night Out and extensively for the BBC, with Whitehouse appearing on A Bit of Fry and Laurie as a man with a clinical need to have his bottom fondled, and Paul Merton: The Series, then as performer on shows such as Harry Enfield's Television Programme, where he developed numerous characters including DJ Mike Smash of Smashie and Nicey alongside Harry Enfield as Nicey.

Serendipity is used as a sociological method in Anselm L. Strauss ' and Barney G. Glaser's Grounded Theory, building on ideas by sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ) referred to the " serendipity pattern " as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory.

Robert K. Merton also coauthored ( with Elinor Barber ) The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity which traces the origins and uses of the word " serendipity " since it was coined.

Scholars inspired by Durkheim include Marcel Mauss, Maurice Halbwachs, Célestin Bouglé, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, Jean Piaget, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ferdinand de Saussure, Michel Foucault, Clifford Geertz, Peter Berger, Robert Bellah and others.

American sociologist Robert K. Merton ( 1910 – 2003 ) dedicates a section of Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ; revised and expanded, 1957 and 1968 ) to the study of the sociology of knowledge in Part III, titled The Sociology of Knowledge and Mass Communications.

Merton was born in New York City to sociologist Robert K. Merton and Suzanne Carhart.

The concept has long existed but was named and popularised in the 20th century by American sociologist Robert K. Merton.

However, it was the sociologist Robert K. Merton who popularized this concept in the twentieth century.

Robert K. Merton listed five possible causes of unanticipated consequences:

* The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action by Robert K. Merton, American Sociological Review, Vol 1 Issue 6, Dec 1936, pp. 894 – 904

The first focus groups were created at the Bureau of Applied Social Research in the USA, by associate director, sociologist Robert K. Merton.

For example, Robert K. Merton asserts that all ideas must be tested and are subject to rigorous, structured community scrutiny ( see Mertonian norms ).

Robert K. Merton was born on July 4, 1910, in Philadelphia as Meyer Robert Schkolnick in a family of Yiddish speaking Russian Jews that had immigrated to the United States in 1904.

He adopted the name Robert K. Merton initially as a stage name for his magician performances.

In recognition of his lasting contributions to scholarship and the University, Columbia established the Robert K. Merton Professorship in the Social Sciences in 1990.

Although examples of such prophecies can be found in literature as far back as ancient Greece and ancient India, it is 20th-century sociologist Robert K. Merton who is credited with coining the expression " self-fulfilling prophecy " and formalizing its structure and consequences.

The famous sociologist, Robert K. Merton, wrote that a person's expectation is directly linked to the Self-fulfilling Prophecy.

* obliteration by incorporation, a concept in sociology of science introduced by Robert K. Merton

Robert K. Merton was a functionalist.