Encadenando a un monstruo: la producción de representaciones en un campo impuro

• Autores: Michael Lynch, Ruth McNally
• Localización: Convergencia: Revista de ciencias sociales, ISSN-e 2448-5799, ISSN 1405-1435, Nº. 42, 2006, págs. 15-45
• Idioma: español
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  • En este documento se aborda el tema de la representación desde la perspectiva etnometodológica y desde la sociología del conocimiento científico. En un primer punto, se discute la imagen estándar de la representación y la propuesta constructivista de dicha imagen. Después se presenta un estudio de caso en el que se sugiere cómo las prácticas de recolección y análisis de la evidencia forense pueden contribuir al entendimiento de la adecuación representativa. El objeto de este trabajo apunta a pensar de modo distinto la representación, considerando cómo ésta es producida, manejada y deconstruida. Desde esta visión, la propuesta consiste en pensar a la representación no sólo como un concepto epistemológico problemático, sino también como una realización de culturas epistémicas específicas.

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