Karin Knorr Cetina is an Austrian sociologist, born on 19 July 1944 in Graz, Austria, known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism, set out in her books The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science (1981) and Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (1999). She later turned to the study of global microstructures and the social studies of finance, and has held the Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professorship, jointly appointed in anthropology, while chairing the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She introduced the concept of the knowledge object to describe unfolding structures, non-identical with themselves, that emerge as post-social relations within the epistemic cultures she studied.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountSociologist of science known for social-constructionist studies of how scientific knowledge is produced within distinct epistemic cultures. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountEpistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (1999) 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountThe Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science (1981) 1 Connections
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Knorr Cetina ethnography of global financial markets analyzed them as technologically mediated systems in which traders act on a shared, screen-based reality.
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Karin Knorr Cetina (also Karin Knorr-Cetina) (born 19 July 1944 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian sociologist well known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism, summarized in the books The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science (1981) and Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (1999).
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July 19, 1944
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well known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism
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The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science
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Graz, Austria
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The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science
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Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge
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Knorr-Cetina's progression to understanding how technology mediates sociality led her to select global financial markets as a new "laboratory" to study knowledge in society.
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