The Competitiveness of Nations
in a Global Knowledge-Based Economy
H.H. Chartrand
May 2002
Robert K. Merton
The Fallacy of the Latest Word:
The
Case of “Pietism and Science”
American Journal of Sociology,
Volume 89, Issue 5
March 1984,
1091-1121.
Index
Theoretical Contexts and Empirical Knowledge
Claims
Levels of Theoretical Abstraction in Sociohistorical
Inquiry
A Counterintuitive and Counterpositivistic
Hypothesis
The Role of Rationality in Emerging Modern Science:
Pietism as a Strategic Polar Case
The Pietism-Science Connection as an Unintended
Consequence
The Fallacy of the Latest Word
Appendix of Sociohistorical
Particulars
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