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social science subjects > social research > philosophy and the social sciences > general philosophy > social epistemology
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social epistemology  

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  • Studying the ways in which knowledge comes about; conditions that are friendly to knowledge; how, where, and when knowledge travels among social groups; and most importantly, how social groups can get the best knowledge possible is at the heart of the interdisciplinary field of social epistemology. Questions about knowledge have long been the provenance of the branch of philosophy known as epistemology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication; Social Epistemology]

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