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• W221024369 abstract "Mr. Sociology died recently. In fact, it was a cold February morning. For most, it was just another day, but the loss was huge to many in academia. On ABC news, a quick announcement was made by anchor Peter Jennings, Robert Merton died. That's bad news on the doorstep. Merton came into this world as a Jewish baby named Meyer Schkolnick. He lived in South Philly where his parents wrenched a living as blue-collar workers. Merton chose an Anglicized name to move into the Yankee dominated America of the 20's and 30's. At Harvard, he studied under Sorokin and Parsons.* The rest of his life he spent briefly at Tulane University and then remainder at Columbia University. There he rose to the very top of the field of sociology. If you have ever used role model opinion leader focus group self-fulfilling prophesy unintended consequences peer group those were words. With 20 books and 200 articles, many in the field read him and most college frosh were introduced to Merton's Paradigm. That 5x2 table answered the question what do people do in a winner take all society, where most are then considered losers? His answer was that some conform, others retreat, some gracefully follow the rules; others turn to crime. A few plan revolution. It was an amazingly simple table, but required numerous books and articles to explain. TIME magazine said that it appealed to 60's Liberals, but most of any time period call that genius with a flair for parsimony. His paradigm applied both to groups and later Inciardi individualized it so that applications could be made at the personal level. Merton lived at the top of the world when sociology was especially interesting and challenging. Professors enjoyed respect and taught wordy 50-minute lectures to mainly attentive students. The Vietnam War destroyed all that. By the 70's Reason came under attack from the deconstructionist post-modern Left and the Social Darwin Right. Previously, professors had the prestige and the trust of their community (particularly if they could prove that they were not Communists.) At that time, there was also an inflated vision that things were getting better and in a trend-like trajectory would mean that happy days were ahead. Social problems could be solved. By the 80's and 90's, the university was overwhelmed by number crunchers, cost cutters, and academic temps. That last term means an army of adjuncts and grad-teaching assistant taught most of the courses to most of the students. Scholarship was replaced by grantsmanship. Whole committees of writers sharing articles to build their resumes to get more grants, to keep their jobs, replaced articles, once written by individuals. Many phantom academics rarely set foot in the classroom. In a large university today, average undergrads still need a refresher course in basic composition. It appears that campuses have students with high self-esteem and low SAT's. The top wage earner is not the president, but the winning football coach. Merton did it all. He was the first sociologist to be invited to the National Academy of Sciences. He won a Guggenheim, Parson prize and National Medal of Sciences. He became the president of the American Sociological Society. He would have been a recipient of the Nobel, but it is not given to sociologists. The closest sociologist to get one also had significant credentials in economics (the Chicago school) in the person of Gary S. Becker (1992.). However son won the prize in 97' in economics. My own interest in Merton came through my mentor Dr. George Helling of Windfall in rural south Minnesota. He spent most his life at St. Olaf, but spent 10 years at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, rebuilding the department (that is where I met him. …" @default.
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