Sociology & Anthropology · Sociology of Religion, Science & Technology
A topic within Sociology of Religion, Science & Technology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Sociology & Anthropology.
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Robert K. Merton
Argues that scientific recognition is self-reinforcing -- eminent researchers get disproportionate credit for work done jointly with less well-known collaborators -- so reputation accumulates for the already-reputed in a pattern the Gospel of Matthew supplied the name for.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Robert K. Merton
Argues that science functions as an institution only because its practitioners share four norms -- universalism, communalism, disinterestedness and organised scepticism -- and that violating them, not just getting results wrong, is what science treats as misconduct.
link checked 17 Sept 2026