The anthropological approach is the central focus of this study. Laboratories are looked upon with the innocent eye of the traveller in exotic lands, and the societies found in these places are observed with the objective yet compassionate eye of the visitor from a quite other cultural milieu. There are many surprises that await us if we enter a laboratory in this frame of mind... This study is a realistic 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 concern, 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
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Elsevier Science & Technology Books
ISBN-10
0080257771
ISBN-13
9780080257778
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1419172
Product Key Features
Author
Karin D. Knorr
Publication Name
Manufacture of Knowledge : an Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1981
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Q175.5
Reviews
We believe that Knorr's book....is not only interesting and stimulating, it is also an important book. Her adventure as an observer in a scientific laboratory is in itself already a rather daring undertaking. She succeeds in organising and bringing forward her data in a very original way, connecting it with the know-how and ideas in the methodological field. Communication, Cognition An important work in the sociology of science with special significance for the protosciences. Recommended for the specialist. Zetetic Scholar