The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science / /

by Karin Knorr Cetina and Karin D. Knorr-Cetina

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 008025778X
• ISBN13: 9780080257785
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.