books.google.pt - "The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. . . . There are very few other books in sociology...http://books.google.pt/books/about/The_Sociology_of_Science.html?hl=pt-PT&id=zPvcHuUMEMwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Sociology of Science
