关键词: 认知文化, 实验室研究, 描述, 规范

Abstract: Science as epistemic model, what characteristics and conditions it has, how its epistemic paradigms evolve, change, and the pursuit of these questions compose what we call epistemic culture. This paper discusses social studies of science, especially epistemic culture issues through the approach of laboratory studies. Laboratory studies exhibit the multiple dimensions of scientific epistemic, the differences among epistemic paradigms within various scientific disciplines, which provide rich and constructive examples in our search for the structure and evolution of epistemic culture.

Key words: epistemic culture, laboratory studies, description, norm