Karin Knorr Cetina Libri
Karin Knorr-Cetina è una sociologa austriaca rinomata per il suo lavoro sull'epistemologia e sul costruzionismo sociale. La sua ricerca approfondisce come la conoscenza scientifica viene generata e plasmata da forze sociali e contestuali. Indaga i modi in cui le comunità scientifiche costruiscono la comprensione e i meccanismi culturali e sociali vitali per questo processo. Il suo approccio illumina l'essenza della scoperta scientifica e la natura della scienza stessa.
This is the first volume to bring together philosophers, sociologists and scientists to explore and examine the role of practices in human activity.
The manufacture of knowledge
- 200pagine
- 7 ore di lettura
This study is a realist enterprise, an attempt to truly represent the social order of life in laboratories and institutes of research, just as they are. By bringing the philosophical issues to the surface as matters not of prejudgement but as matters of concerns, Karin Knorr-Cetina has developed the first really positive challenge to the philosophy of science since the days of paradigms and internal definitions of meanings. The anthropological approach is the central focus of this study.
Epistemic cultures : how the sciences make knowledge
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cultures of our day, those in high energy physics and molecular biology. The first ethnographic study to systematically compare two different scientific laboratory cultures, this book sharpens our focus on epistemic cultures as the basis of the knowledge society.
Wie entsteht eine wissenschaftliche Tatsache? Wie stellt sich naturwissenschaftliche Kreativität dar, wenn man sie im Labor des Naturwissenschaftlers beobachtet? Wie verhält sich die handwerkliche Arbeit der Forscherin zu dem, was im veröffentlichten wissenschaftlichen Text steht? Karin Knorr Cetina geht durch das Labor mit den Augen einer Anthropologin, die die Sitten und Gebräuche einer fremden Ethnie mit der Distanz, aber auch der Sympathie des Mitglieds einer anderen Kultur studiert. Dabei zeigt sich, dass man das Unternehmen Wissenschaft mit idealisierten epistemologischen Begriffen nicht besonders gut zu fassen bekommt. Es muss vielmehr aus der Alltagswelt wissenschaftlicher Handarbeit rekonstruiert werden. Ein Klassiker der Wissenschaftssoziologie.