(The full version of this article was published in volume 17 issue 1 of The Journal of Evolution and Technology. A different version entitled “The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity” was published in International Sociology, 2007, 22: 161-164.)
Robert K. Merton and Elinor Barber’s The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity is the history of a word and its related concept. The choice of writing a book about a word may surprise those who are not acquainted with Merton’s work, but certainly not those sociologists that have chosen him as a master. Searching, defining, and formulating concepts has always been Merton’s main intellectual activity.
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