Karin Knorr-Cetina
Academic
1944 –
Who is Karin Knorr-Cetina?
Karin Knorr-Cetina 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 and Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Currently, she focuses on the study of global microstructures and Social studies of finance. Karin Knorr is professor of the Theory of Sociology at the Universität Konstanz and guest professor at the University of Chicago.
A knowledge object is a theoretical concept introduced by Knorr-Cetina to describe the emergence of post-social relations in epistemic cultures. Knowledge objects are different than everyday things and are defined as unfolding structures that are non-identical with themselves; Jyri Engeström based the concept of social objects on this concept.
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- Born
- Jul 19, 1944
Graz - Also known as
- Karin Knorr
- K. Knorr-Cetina
- Nationality
- Austria
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Employment
- University of Chicago
- Lived in
- Graz
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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