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'Karin Knorr-Cetina' (also 'Karin Knorr Cetina') (born July 19, 1944 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian sociologist well known for 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), her work on epistemology and Social constructionism, and more recently her contribution to the 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.

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Bibliography

★ ''The Manufacture of Knowledge - An Essay on the Constructivist and contextual Nature of Science'': Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1981.

★ ''Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge'' (New York, 1999)

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★ Knorr-Cetinas Homepage