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- November 2006 (Revised May 2007)
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Merton's Ethos of Science: Excerpts and Summaries
Abstract
Robert K. Merton wrote a series of papers on the sociology of science in the 1940s and 1950s and is commonly recognized as the founder of the field. Merton laid out four norms that constitute the "ethos" of science: community-wide fundamentals that he proposed were necessary to sustain science as a viable institution.
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Citation
Fleming, Lee, and Christopher C. Liu. "Merton's Ethos of Science: Excerpts and Summaries." Harvard Business School Background Note 607-047, November 2006. (Revised May 2007.)