Epistemic Cultures

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Karin Knorr Cetina

页数:352

出版时间:1999-5-1

价格:USD 39.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780674258945

图书标签:科学史sociologySTSSSK科普社会史技术批判knowledge

How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity and historical coincidence, determine how people know and what they know. This text compares two epistemic cultures, those in high energy physics and molecular biology. It highlights the diversity of these cultures of knowing and, in its depiction of their differences - in the meaning of the empirical, the enactment of object relations, and the fashioning of social relations - challenges the accepted view of unified science. Comtemporary Western societies are becoming "knowledge societies", which run on expert processes and systems epitomized by science and structured into all areas of social life. This work addresses questions about how such expert systems and processes work, what principles inform their cognitive and procedural orientations and whether their organization, structures and operations can be extended to other forms of social order.

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上STS课读过部分。。。注意其对Latour的《实验室生活》的突破（老师语）。。。Cetina强调知识本身的机制，布鲁尔更强调知识建构的context。