Merton School Of Thought And Edinburgh School Of Thought Basic Philosophy Difference And Fusion

U.S. sociologist Merton founded the science of sociology, he was concerned about the scientific advance social causes, and the latter part of his concern is the scientific basis for the establishment of norms and their operational mechanism, he inherited the sociology of traditional knowledge, that knowledge of mathematics and natural sciences has a special status, and scientific knowledge will be excluded from the sociological study. Therefore, Merton's scientific sociological research into the "no scientific sociology of science."The British Edinburgh University's science studies compares the group, proposed the research scientific knowledge "the strong guiding principle", founded the scientific knowledge sociology research, to is removed by Merton beside the sociological research the scientific knowledge carries on the sociological research. The Edinburgh school of thought that human all knowledge including the scientific knowledge, are relative, by the society decided that therefore is carries on consultative between certain social situation people the result.The Edinburgh school of thought in with inherits to the Merton school of thought's critique in the foundation has established their scientific knowledge sociology. But also because of its guiding principle's relativism and the construction principle characteristic, has met the limitation in the development. In and solves in the respective limitation process from the Merton school of thought to the Edinburgh school of thought's development, may see, they gradual moved toward the fusion from the opposition, but looking from a broader angle of view, the scientific research needs to open scientific view.Article the first half part, introduced the Merton school of thought and the Edinburgh school of thought origin as well as its respective basic philosophy separately; The second half, has analyzed the Merton school of thought and the Edinburgh school of thought basic philosophy difference as well as their thought fusion tendency, then draws the conclusion, the scientific research needs to open the scientific view, needs the scientific view the fusion, the dialog and the exchange, can understand day by day the complex science by this.