Download or read book Social Theory and Social Structure written by Robert King Merton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1968 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new printing is not a newly revised edition, only an enlarged one. The revised edition of 1957 remains intact except that its short introduction has been greatly expanded to appear here as Chapters I and II. The only other changes are technical and minor ones: the correction of typographical errors and amended indexes of subjects and names.