The Fallacy of the Received Word: A Reexamination of Merton's Pietism-Science Thesis

• 1 March 1986
• journal article
• editorial
• Published by University of Chicago Press in American Journal of Sociology
• Vol. 91  (5) , 1203-1218
• https://doi.org/10.1086/228391

Abstract

Keywords

• REEXAMINATION
• FALLACY
• MERTON'S PIETISM
• RECEIVED WORD
• PIETISM SCIENCE
• SCIENCE THESIS