As the two main schools in the sociology of science,the emergence and development process of Mertonian school and Edinburgh school have indiscerptible connection and great difference.

• 作为科学社会学的两大主要流派,默顿学派和爱丁堡学派在产生和发展过程中既有不可分割的联系,同时又存在着很大的差异。