While Epistieimc Cultures deals with the implications of expert systems of the lab, upon society and the transformation of contemrory to knowledge societies, this article perforems a close analysis of the category of 'rationality' within the same two lab sities of the book. Rationality beinga a main say of modern systems of knowledge and therefore knowledge societies, Knorr Cetina in this work argues that in each of these spaces "rationality has been a resource rather than a topic of analysis". Thus through her close study of the expremental process of the micro biology and high energy physics, shows how at the heart of produced rational resultes are negotiated mechanism that contradict classical relational assumption and procedures.
Source
Knorr-Cetina, Karin D. "Epistemic cultures: Forms of reason in science." History of Political Economy 23, no. 1 (1991): 105-122.
Language
English
Cite as
Karin Knorr Cetina, "Epistemic Cultures Forms of Reason in Science", contributed by Parikshith Shashikumar, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 10 March 2019, accessed 18 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/epistemic-cultures-forms-reason-science
Critical Commentary
While Epistieimc Cultures deals with the implications of expert systems of the lab, upon society and the transformation of contemrory to knowledge societies, this article perforems a close analysis of the category of 'rationality' within the same two lab sities of the book. Rationality beinga a main say of modern systems of knowledge and therefore knowledge societies, Knorr Cetina in this work argues that in each of these spaces "rationality has been a resource rather than a topic of analysis". Thus through her close study of the expremental process of the micro biology and high energy physics, shows how at the heart of produced rational resultes are negotiated mechanism that contradict classical relational assumption and procedures.