Creating Knowledge -- Constructivism and the Environment of Science

Author: (Austrian) Karin Dierkes-N?rr, translated by Wang Shanbo and others
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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, Dierkes-N?rr, is one of the representatives of the constructionist school 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, formed by a chain of decisions and negotiations. Discourse interaction, resource relationships, the convergence and divergence of interests, and other factors play a significant role. This book is one of the most representative works in the constructionist school of the sociology of scientific knowledge.