1. The Paradoxes of Robert K. Merton: Fragmentary Reflections2. Looking for Shoulders to Stand on, or for a Paradigm for the Sociology of Science3. R. K. Merton in France: Foucault, Bourdieu, Latour and the Invention of Mainstream Sociology in Paris4. Merton in South Asia: The Question of Religion and the Modernity of Science5. The Contribution of Robert K. Merton’s Key Concepts to the Analysis of Gender Differentiation in Society6. A Tribute to Robert Merton: Protestant and Catholic Ethics Revisited7. The Concept of Ambivalence in the Relationship between Science and Society8. Robert K. Merton and the Tansformation of Sociology of Knowledge and Possible New Directions