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The treatment of scientific knowledge as a social construction implies that there is nothing epistemologically special about the nature of scientific knowledge: It is merely one in a whole series of knowledge cultures (including, for instance, the knowledge systems pertaining to “primitive” tribes).
The treatment of scientific knowledge as a social construction implies that there is nothing epistemologically special about the nature of scientific knowledge: It is merely one in a whole series of knowledge cultures (including, for instance, the knowledge systems pertaining to “primitive” tribes). Of course, the success and failures of certain knowledge cultures still need to be explained, but this is to be seen as a sociological task, not an epistemological one.
Trevor Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker (as cited in Pool 1997, p. 13)
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Toscano, A.A. (2012). Conclusion—STS and Technical Communication: Expansive Possibilities. In: Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology. SpringerBriefs in Sociology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3977-2_6
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