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Article: Scientists at University of Manchester target ethnology.
- Article from:
- Science Letter
- Article date:
- July 29, 2008
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"In this article, I provide an ethnographic exploration of some of the terms for imagining knowledge in today's ''knowledge society,'' and I attempt to situate the kind of ''sociology of knowledge'' behind this imagination. In particular, I am interested in the sociological imagination of knowledge in terms of a relational economy, in which knowledge flows uninterruptedly to create and shape what Yochai Benkler has dubbed ''the wealth of networks.'' I pursue this interest through an ethnography of the production of research among humanities scholars at Spain's National Research Council (CSIC)," investigators in Manchester, the United Kingdom report (see also Ethnology).