{"product_id":"epistemic-cultures-karin-knorr-cetina-9780674258945","title":"Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow 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. Her work 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 a unified science. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy many accounts, contemporary Western societies are becoming \"knowledge societies\"--which run on expert processes and expert systems epitomized by science and structured into all areas of social life. By looking at epistemic cultures in two sample cases, this book addresses pressing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karin Knorr Cetina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674258940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674258945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 6.04w x 0.84d","brand":"Karin Knorr Cetina","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995566145791,"sku":"9780674258945","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1bfafd3f-07c6-4ec1-ab6a-eef9a907e76b.jpg?v=1683336547","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/epistemic-cultures-karin-knorr-cetina-9780674258945","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}