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Robert Merton (Robert King Merton): famous American sociologist, one of the founders of the sociology of science and structural functionalism representative figures of the genre. Born July 1910 a civilian family in South Philadelphia. Tempel (Temple) a bachelor's degree in 1931, and later entered the world-renowned Harvard University, where he studied under the renowned sociologist PA Sorokin, T. Parsons and historians of science GAL Saer Dun. Doctorate in sociology in 1936 and taught there for three years. Work in the Tulan En (Tulane) University from 1939 to 1941, she served as associate professor, professor and Head of the Department of Sociology. Merton went to Columbia University in 1941, where he spent his subsequent sociological career, and has served as chairman of the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, deputy director of the Applied Social Research Institute, President of the American Sociological Association (1956 -1957), U.S. Eastern Sociological Association President (1968-1969), Chairman of scientific and sociological research in the United States (1975-1976), president of the Academy of Social Sciences (1975) and other staff. Retirement and won a Special Service Professor and professor emeritus at Columbia University in 1979. February 23, 2003, died in New York at the age of 92.