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The Manufacture of Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

The Manufacture of Knowledge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-22
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

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 the social order of life in laboratories and institutes of research, just as they are. By bringing the philosophical issues to the surface as matters not of prejudgement but as matters of concern, Karin Knorr-Cetina has developed the first really positive challenge to the philosophy of science since the days of paradigms and internal definitions of meanings

Epistemic Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Epistemic Cultures

How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cultures of our day, those in high energy physics and molecular biology. Her work highlights the diversity of these cultures of knowing and, in its depiction of their differences--in the meaning of the empirical, the enactment of object relations, and the fashioning of social relations--challenges the accepted view of a unified science. By many accounts, contemporary Western societies are becoming knowledge societies--which run on expert processes and e...

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 640

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-29
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance brings together twenty-nine chapters, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics related to the role of finance in a globalized world, and its historical development. Topics include global institutions of modern finance, types of actors involved in financial transactions and supporting technologies, mortgage markets, rating a...

The Sociology of Financial Markets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 704

The Sociology of Financial Markets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Financial markets also have a structural impact on the governance of social and economic institutions. Until now, sociologists have examined issues of governance mostly with respect to the legal framework of financial transactions. Contributions in this book highlight the ways in which financial markets shape the inner working and structure of corporations and their governance.

The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-06-20
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural theory, history and anthropology.

Science Observed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Science Observed

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Advances in Social Theory and Methodology (RLE Social Theory)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Advances in Social Theory and Methodology (RLE Social Theory)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-08-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

After a period in which sociology was torn apart by the polarized claims of micro- and macro-methodology, an increasing number of sociologists are now attempting a fusion of the two approaches. In this volume, some of the most distinguished sociologists set out possible resolutions of the debate. Each of the chapters, placed in perspective by the editors’ prologue, approaches the problem from a unique angle. Aaron Cicourel argues for a macro-basis of social interaction; Randall Collins shows how the macro consists of an aggregate of micro-episodes; Troy Duster presents a methodological model for generating a systematic data base across different contexts of social action through his examin...

Science Observed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Science Observed

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Mediatization of Communication
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 752

Mediatization of Communication

This handbook on Mediatization of Communication uncovers the interrelation between media changes and changes in culture and society. This is essential to understand contemporary trends and transformations. “Mediatization” characterizes changes in practices, cultures and institutions in media-saturated societies, thus denoting transformations of these societies themselves. This volume offers 31 contributions by leading media and communication scholars from the humanities and social sciences, with different approaches to mediatization of communication. The chapters span from how mediatization meets climate change and contribute to globalization to questions on life and death in mediatized settings.The book deals with mass media as well as communication with networked, digital media. The topic of this volume makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of contemporary processes of social, cultural and political changes.The handbook provides the reader with the most currentstate of mediatization research.

The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-06-20
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural theory, history and anthropology.