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| ISBN: | 0585054029
9780585054025
0791409236
0791409244
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This book argues that the power of science as the most respected and authoritative world view is based on its superior material and organizational resources, not on its superior rationality. Fuchs approaches science as a social construct, and utilizing a theory of scientific organizations, he analyzes knowledge production in scientific fields - how they differ in their resources and how these differences affect how science is conducted. The book explains why certain fields produce science and facts, while others engage in hermeneutics and conversation; why certain specialities change through cumulation rather than fragmentation; and why some fields are relativistic while others are positivist in their self-understanding. This general theory of knowledge is applicable not only to science, but to all varieties of professional groups engaged in knowledge production.
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| Other form: | Print version: Fuchs, Stephan, 1956- Professional quest for truth. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1992 0791409236
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