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A subfield of the sociology of knowledge that examines how epistemic standards, practices, and institutions are socially produced and maintained. It asks: how do communities decide what counts as knowledge? Why do some knowledge claims gain authority while others are dismissed? How do power relations shape epistemic hierarchies? The sociology of [epistemology] draws on work from Thomas Kuhn, Michel Foucault, and [contemporary] science studies to show that epistemology is not a purely [philosophical] discipline but a social one—grounded in institutions, practices, and power. It is the empirical study of how we know what we claim to know.
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