Creating Knowledge Constructivism and the Contingency of Science: Constructivism and the Contingency of Science

Author: Karin N?rr-Eschmann
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Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: In the workshop of knowledge, how do scientific elites create scientific theories and make scientific discoveries? This book provides a compelling and brilliant answer. The author, N?rr-Eschmann, is one of the representatives of the constructive stance in the sociology of scientific knowledge. She argues that the construction process of scientific knowledge includes the construction of scientific facts in the laboratory and the construction of scientific papers, which is constituted by a chain of decisions and negotiations. Discursive interaction, resource relationships, the convergence and divergence of interests, and other factors play important roles. This book is the most representative work in the constructive stance of the sociology of scientific knowledge.