Some of Robert K. Merton's Contributions to Justice Theory *

Berger Joseph Zelditch Morris Jr. Anderson Bo Cohen Bernard P. 1972. “Structural Aspects of Distributive Justice: A Status-Value Formulation.” Pp. 119–246 in Sociological Theories in Progress, Vol. 2, edited by Joseph Berger Zelditch Morris Jr. Bo Anderson . Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Jasso Guillermina 1978. “On the Justice of Earnings: A New Specification of the Justice Evaluation Function.”, American Journal of Sociology 83:1398–1419.

Jasso Guillermina 1980. “A New Theory of Distributive Justice.”, American Sociological Review 45:3–32.

Jasso Guillermina 1986. “A New Representation of the Just Term in Distributive-Justice Theory: Its Properties and Operation in Theoretical Derivation and Empirical Estimation.”, Journal of Mathematical Sociology 12:251–74.

Jasso Guillermina 1996. “Exploring the Reciprocal Relations between Theoretical and Empirical Work: The Case of the Justice Evaluation Function.”, Sociological Methods and Research 24:253–303.

Jasso Guillermina Rossi Peter H. 1977. “Distributive Justice and Earned Income.”, American Sociological Review 42:639–51.

Jasso Guillermina Wegener Bernd 1997. “Methods for Empirical Justice Analysis.”, Social Justice Research 10:393–430.

Merton Robert K. [1949, 1957]1968. Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: Free Press.

Merton Robert K. 1957. “Continuities in the Theory of Reference Groups and Social Structure.” Pp. 281–386 in Merton R. K. , Social Theory and Social Structure. Second edition, revised and enlarged. New York: Free Press.

Merton Robert K. Rossi Alice S. 1950. “Contributions to the Theory of Reference Group Behavior.” Pp. 40–105 in Continuities in Social Research: Studies in the Scope and Method of “The American Soldier”, edited by Merton R. K. Lazarsfeld P. . New York: Free Press. Reprinted as pp. 225–80 in R. K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure. Second edition, revised and enlarged. New York: Free Press.

Rossi Peter H. 1951. “The Application of Latent Structure Analysis to the Study of Social Stratification.” Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University.

Rossi Peter H. 1979. “Vignette Analysis: Uncovering the Normative Structure of Complex Judgments.” Pp. 176–86 in Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research: Papers in Honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld, edited by Merton Robert K. Coleman James S. Rossi Peter H. . New York: Free Press.