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Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton 1915-68, American religious writer and poet, b. France. He grew up in France, England, and the United States and studied at Cambridge and at Columbia (B.A., 1938; M.A., 1939). Converted to the Roman Catholic Church during his college career, he became in 1941 a Trappist monk. He was l... Read more
Walter de Merton
Walter de Merton d. 1277, English bishop, founder of Merton College, Oxford. He was lord chancellor from 1261 to 1263, was reappointed after the death of Henry III (1272), and was made bishop of Rochester in 1274. In 1261 he obtained a charter from the earl of Gloucester for the assignation of land... Read more
Robert King Merton
Robert King Merton 1910-2003, American sociologist, b. Philadelphia as Meyer Schkolnick, grad. Temple Univ. (A.B., 1931) and Harvard (M.A., 1932; Ph.D., 1936). From 1941 on he was a professor of sociology at Columbia Univ. and was especially known for his contributions to the study of social struct... Read more
Thomas Day
Thomas Day 1748-89, English social reformer and author. He supported the American Revolution and the abolition of slavery and was interested in improving the lot of the small farmer. His moralistic History of Sandford and Merton (3 vol., 1783-89) contrasts the "natural" education of the virtu... Read more
anomie
anomie a social condition characterized by instability, the breakdown of social norms, institutional disorganization, and a divorce between socially valid goals and available means for achieving them. Introduced into sociology by Emile Durkheim in his study Suicide (1897), anomie also refers to... Read more
self-fulfilling prophecy
self-fulfilling prophecy a concept developed by Robert K. Merton to explain how a belief or expectation, whether correct or not, affects the outcome of a situation or the way a person (or group) will behave. Thus, for example, labeling someone a "criminal," and treating that person as such, m... Read more
Abraham Tucker
Abraham Tucker 1705-74, English philosopher, b. London. He studied law at Merton College, Oxford, and later devoted himself to independent study. He advanced the ethical view that each man seeks his own interests and that the will of God blends these into a public good. This position is similar to ... Read more
Francis Herbert Bradley
Francis Herbert Bradley 1846-1924, English philosopher. He was educated at Oxford, where he became a fellow of Merton College in 1876. His works include Ethical Studies (1876), Principles of Logic (1883), and Appearance and Reality (1893). In logic, Bradley attacked the psychological tendenci... Read more
Thomas Carew
Thomas Carew 1595?-1639?, English author, one of the Cavalier poets . Educated at Merton College, Oxford, he had a short diplomatic career on the Continent, then returned to England and became a favorite of Charles I and a court official. He is best known for his courtly, amorous lyrics, such as ... Read more
Marc Connelly
Marc Connelly (Marcus Cook Connelly) , 1890-1981, American dramatist, b. McKeesport, Pa. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning play The Green Pastures (1930), a fantasy of biblical history presented in terms of the religious life of Southern blacks; it was based on Roark Bradford's boo... Read more

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Merton, Robert K.
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Merton, Robert K. 1910-2003 Robert K. Merton was the founder of the sociology of science and one of the...Schkolnick to poor Jewish immigrants in South Philadelphia, Merton was part of an extraordinary generation of sociologists whose...
Thomas Merton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Thomas Merton Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Roman Catholic writer, was a Trappist monk, social critic, and spiritual guide. Thomas Merton was born in Prades, France, on January 31, 1915, the first-born...
Robert K. Merton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Robert K. Merton Robert K. Merton (born 1910) was a sociologist, educator, and internationally...sociology of science. Born in Philadelphia on July 5, 1910, Robert Merton was educated at Temple University and received his doctorate from...
Merton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Merton outer borough (1991 pop. 161,800) of...largest mosques in Europe is in Morden. Merton also contains Wimbledon, England's tennis...played. George Eliot lived in Wimbledon. Merton has remains of a priory that was founded...
Walter de Merton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Walter de Merton d. 1277, English bishop, founder of Merton College, Oxford. He was lord chancellor from 1261 to...beginning of the collegiate system of education, and Merton College became the model for other colleges at Oxford...
Merton, Walter de
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Merton, Walter de (d. 1277). Clerical statesman. Educated at Oxford, Walter...Rochester. The careful rules he laid down for the governance of his foundation Merton College, Oxford, in 1264 were copied at Peterhouse, the oldest of the Cambridge...
Merton of the Movies
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Merton of the Movies (1922), a comedy by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly . [ Cort Theatre , 398 perf.] Merton Gill ( Glenn Hunter ) is so film struck that he has become the joke of the tiny Illinois town of Simsbury. When his preoccupation...
Merton, statute of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Merton, statute of, 1236. As much a discussion document as a statute, it arose from an assembly at Merton (Surrey) in January 1236 in Henry III's reign, and was an attempt to clarify a number of miscellaneous points of law. Among the many...
Robert King Merton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Robert King Merton 1910-2003, American sociologist, b. Philadelphia as Meyer Schkolnick...Shoulders of Giants (1965), and The Sociology of Science (1973). Merton developed such concepts as the "self-fulfilling prophecy," "role...
Merton H. Miller
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Merton H. Miller 1923-2000, American economist, grad. Harvard, 1943, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1952. A professor at Carnegie...

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Merton, Walter de
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Merton, Walter de (d. 1277). Clerical statesman. Educated at Oxford, Walter became a clerk in Chancery...crusade. For the last three years of his life he was bishop of Rochester. He was the founder in 1264 of Merton College, Oxford.
Merton, statute of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Merton, statute of, 1236. As much a discussion document as a statute, it arose from an assembly at Merton (Surrey) in January 1236 in Henry III's reign, and was an attempt to clarify a number of miscellaneous points of law. Among the many...
Merton, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Merton, Thomas (1915–68). Trappist monk and writer. Born in France...portrayed a traditional conversion story to traditional Catholicism. But Merton's way, recorded in his immense literary output, echoed the changes in...
anomie
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...work of Émile Durkheim and Robert Merton. In Durkheim's writings the concept appears...contrasted with Marx's idea of alienation . Robert Merton's work shifts the meaning somewhat. Merton wanted to produce a sociological account of...
Heytesbury, William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Heytesbury was one of several scholars at Merton College, Oxford, during the second quarter...and time. Other leading authors of the Merton group were Thomas Bradwardine, Richard...precise extent of the later influence of Merton kinematics, and particularly of the Merton...
Brytte (Also Britte, Brit, or Brute), Walter
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Brytte was elected to a fellowship at Merton College in 1377, and in MS Digby 15...mentioned as quondam socius collegii de Merton . This is almost all we know about his...follower of John Wycliffe (Bachelor of Merton 1356) and author of the book De auferendis...
John of Dumbleton
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Dumbleton. He is mentioned as a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, at various dates between...in relation to that of other fellows of Merton College, notably Bradwardine, Heytestbuty...mathematical scientific language for which Merton has become famous, and Dumbleton was...
middle-range theory
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...distinguished American sociologist Robert Merton in Social Theory and Social Structure...organization and social change’. Merton consistently argued for, and demonstrated...range of the discussion stimulated by Merton's work is most evident in the excellent...
reference group
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...providing meaning to the self. Robert Merton and Alice Kitt provide a systematic functionalist...Group Behaviour’ (in R. K. Merton and and P. F. Lazarsfeld ( eds...group to which they compared themselves. Merton and Kitt point out that relative deprivation...
Rapaport, David (1911-1960)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...in collaboration with Roy Schafer and Merton Gill. In both books Rapaport refers to...clinical psychology. His close collaborator Merton Gill said of Rapaport that "he spoke...See also: ; ; ; . Bibliography Gill, Merton M. (1961). David Rapaport, 1911...

Thesaurus entries related to "Merton"

call
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...reservists synonyms : enlist, recruit, conscript; draft.   3. he was called up from the minors synonyms : select, pick, choose. on call  Dr. Merton is on call this evening synonyms : on duty, on standby, available.

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MERTON: PRAYFUL LIFE EXAMINED
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 10/31/1998; 700+ words ; ...anniversary edition of Trappist monk Thomas Merton's "The Seven Storey Mountain...The Seven Storey Mountain," Thomas Merton's account of the spiritual awakening...the last volume in a seven-book set of Merton's journals spanning World War II to...
Merton's love not confined to spiritual
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 11/5/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Exploring Solitude and Freedom - The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6. Harper San Francisco. 382 pages...world-renowned Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton was a man of paradox. Merton, who lived at the Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown...
MERTON'S MESSAGE INSPIRES FAITH.(RELIGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/20/1995; 700+ words ; ...R. LONG Religion News Service Thomas Merton was a poet, a mystic, a lover of beer...in an electrical accident in Bangkok, Merton's influence on spiritual seekers shows...work. ``Wherever I go, I always get a Merton story,'' said the Rev. William H...
Merton's poetry as chamber music
Newspaper article from: Lincolnwood Review (IL); 11/14/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...composer Vaughn Fayle began setting Thomas Merton's poems to music, he had to do some scholarly...composition of the poem in order to understand Merton's frame of mind. He found his clues in Merton's letters and journals that were sometimes...
Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination. By Ross...theological, and artistic traits of Merton's corpus, and Ross Labrie's 247 densely...that promise. The preface asserts that Merton, on the whole, was "not a systematic...
MERTON: MONK, MYSTIC, MYSTERY 30 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, SPIRITUAL WRITER STILL HAS IMPACT.(Books)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 12/13/1998; 700+ words ; ...s most famous Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, dead 30 years this year, defies all...seeing the center from somewhere else.'' Merton's tumultuous faith journey, recorded...1968, during an Asian speaking tour, Merton was, as ever, a paradox. Still Catholic...
Merton's ambivalence towards autonomous theory--and ours (1).(Robert K. Merton )(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...honoring the life and work of Robert K. Merton seems perfectly plausible. For one thing...directed against outstanding public figures, Merton was resented for ways in which he appeared...regard, David Caplovitz's review of a Merton Festschrift (1977) sets a high bar...
Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master, the Essential Writings.
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 4/23/1993; ; 700+ words ; THOMAS MERTON: SPIRITUAL MASTER, THE ESSENTIAL WRITINGS...Like the proverbial Cheshire Cat, Thomas Merton may have departed but he keeps making appearances...from Credence Cassettes offers over fifty Merton tapes. The century's most conspicuous...
Merton makes for a good guide.(Religion)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/6/2005; 700+ words ; ...from a fellow who had picked up a flier at a Thomas Merton conference about a contemplative retreat I was to...can't figure out what they were doing at a Thomas Merton conference. Merton was a Trappist monk, vowed to pretty much perpetual...
Merton society meets in Victoria.(Church)
Magazine article from: Catholic New Times; 4/10/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...contemplative, an activist and a poet, Thomas Merton was well-known for his prodigious output...death, with thirty published books, the Merton Library on the UBC campus to open next year and the Thomas Merton Society of Canada's first event in Victoria...