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Institutional Dynamics of Scientific Change: Ben-David's Legacy

Professor Joseph Ben-David devoted much of his life's work to the definition and investigation of central topics in the sociology of science. This volume presents a generous sample of his research, twenty-six papers in all, and contains his most important writings on professional roles, scientific norms and the institutional structure of science. Two previously unpublished articles were prepared for inclusion, as well as a biographical introduction by the editor. Although Ben-David was not formally trained in Mertonian sociology of science, he advanced and later defended many of its most distinctive claims. His work is organized by core theoretical issues of Weberian-Mertonian sociology, including the treatment of institutional values as determinants of scientific behaviour, the universal character of the scientific ethos and the general autonomy of science. Ben-David displayed an intense concern for the institutional goal of