Robert Merton's Contributions to the Sociology of Deviance

Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach

1979 • 7,521 citations

Social Theory and Social Structure.

1969 • 6,531 citations

Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach (1979)

2010 • 5,576 citations

Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency

1957 • 5,357 citations

Social Structure and Anomie

2017 • 3,744 citations

Inequality and Heterogeneity: A Primitive Theory of Social Structure

1977 • 2,792 citations

The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action

1936 • 2,350 citations

Deviant behavior;: A social learning approach

1973 • 1,899 citations

The Cost of Inequality: Metropolitan Structure and Violent Crime

1982 • 1,446 citations

A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior

1966 • 960 citations

Culture Conflict and Crime

1938 • 621 citations

The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology

1970 • 506 citations

The New Criminology

2002 • 428 citations

The Structure of Sociological Theory

1988 • 407 citations

Property Crime Rates in the United States: A Macrodynamic Analysis, 1947-1977; With Ex Ante Forecasts for the Mid-1980s

1980 • 325 citations

Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior

1959 • 211 citations

Delinquency and Opportunity

1961 • 204 citations

Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior

1959 • 200 citations

The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton.

1977 • 164 citations

The Principles of Criminology.

1985 • 120 citations

SOCIAL SOURCES OF DELINQUENCY: AN APPRAISAL OF ANALYTIC MODELS

1979 • 113 citations

Social Conformity, Deviation, and Opportunity Structures: A Comment on the Contributions of Dubin and Cloward

1959 • 95 citations

Merton's “social structure and anomie”: The road not taken

1988 • 73 citations

Control Criticisms of Strain Theories: An Assessment of Theoretical and Empirical Adequacy

1984 • 71 citations

Science and social structure: a festschrift for Robert K. Merton.

1980 • 51 citations

Crime and Deviance in America: A Critical Approach.

1982 • 43 citations

Were Cloward and Ohlin Strain Theorists? Delinquency and Opportunity Revisited

1988 • 30 citations

Sociology Since Midcentury

1981 • 23 citations

The Natural History of an Applied Theory: Differential Opportunity and “Mobilization for Youth”

1975 • 13 citations