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In the sociology of knowledge, the relationship between society and knowledge —or rather what separates them — remains an unsolved problem. A critical analysis of various solutions that we must look for to this problem suggests the plausibility of a passage between social groups, styles of argumentation and objects of knowledge. An empirical model of “decision displacements” is proposed on the basis of a corpus of texts and of observations derived from concrete analysis of a laboratory situation.
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Knorr-Cetina, K. The internal environment of knowledge claims: One aspect of the knowledge-society connection. Argumentation 2, 369–389 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00176973
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