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Quotes from Social Theory and Social Structure — Robert K. Merton

1910–2003 United States

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The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come "true".

Social Theory and Social Structure (1949)

By social structure is meant that organized set of social relationships in which members of the society or group are variously implicated.

Social Theory and Social Structure (1949)

No man knows fully what has shaped his own thinking

Social Theory and Social Structure (1949)

[Merton states that anomie represents] An acute disjunction between the cultural norms and goals and the socially structured capacities of members of the group to act in accord with them.

Social Theory and Social Structure (1949)

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