The epistemic community
By: MILLER, Hugh T
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Contributor(s): FOX, Charles J.
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2001Administration & Society 32, 6, p. 668-687Abstract: Early epistemology assumed that the observer (a) was independent of and distinct from the object observed and (b) could validate objetive reality in a language system called the laws of science. The authors offer something different. In arguing that knowledge is responsive to the culture in which it in embedded, they take a perspectival approach, gathering localized intentionality, context, social practies, and linguistic meaning (called ground) into the project of inquiry (called figure). Knowledge building, in other words, depends on the background and interests of the epistemic community that is generating knowledge
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Early epistemology assumed that the observer (a) was independent of and distinct from the object observed and (b) could validate objetive reality in a language system called the laws of science. The authors offer something different. In arguing that knowledge is responsive to the culture in which it in embedded, they take a perspectival approach, gathering localized intentionality, context, social practies, and linguistic meaning (called ground) into the project of inquiry (called figure). Knowledge building, in other words, depends on the background and interests of the epistemic community that is generating knowledge
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