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Karin Knorr
Karin Knorr-Cetina (also Karin Knorr Cetina) (born July 19, 1944 in Graz, Austria) is a German 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 University of Chicago.
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