RECONSTRUCŢIA PARADIGMATICĂ A SOCIOLOGIEI CUNOAŞTERII ŞI PROIECTUL LUI ROBERT K. MERTON AL UNEI „REVOLUŢII COPERNICANE” DISCIPLINARE
SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE'S PARADIGMATIC RECONSTRUCTION AND ROBERT K. MERTON'S PROJECT OF A DISCIPLINARY "COPERNICAN REVOLUTION"

Summary/Abstract: The main thesis asserted in this paper is that Robert Merton proposed a „Copernican revolution” in sociology of knowledge as a new domain of academic research. He has taken into account the whole sociological tradition which began at the middle of nineteenth century and he developed a new paradigm for sociology of knowledge. He has imagined a theoretical structure for this domain and he was devoted in the same time to some methodological questions regarding the rationality of research in relation with some dilemmas produced by the sociological difference between the perspectives of insiders and outsiders or by the epistemological distinction between the so-called acquaintance with and knowledge about.

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