Karin D. Knorr Cetina

(PhD, U of Vienna 1971) Georege Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Sociology and of the Social Sciences in the College specializes in economic anthropology/sociology, the anthropology of science, knowledge and technology, globalization and global society studies, contemporary social theory, and qualitative methods.
email: karin.knorr@uni-konstanz.de
alternate email: knorr@uchicago.edu

Publications:

1981 The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science. Oxford: Pergamon Press

1992 The Couch, the Cathedral and the Lab: On the Relationship between Experiment and Laboratory Science. In A. Pickering, ed., Science as Practice and Culture. University of Chicago Press.

1995 How Superorganisms Change: Consensus Formation and the Social Ontology of High-Energy Physics Experiments. Social Studies of Science. 25: 119-47.

1997 Sociality with Objects: Social Relations in Postsocial Knowledge Societies. Theory, Culture and Society. 14(4): 1-30.

1999 Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press

2000 (w/ Urs Bruegger) The Market as an Object of Attachment: Exploring Postsocial Relations in Financial Markets. Canadian Journal of Sociology. 25(2): 141-168

2002 (w/ Urs Bruegger) Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets. American Journal of Sociology. 107(4): 905-950.

2002 Inhabiting Technology: Features of a Global Lifeform. Current Sociology. July Special Issue on The Sociology of Technology.

2003  From Pipes to Scopes: The Flow Architecture of Financial Markets. Distinktion. 7: 7-23.

2005  (Ed. w/ A. Prada) The Sociology of Financial Markets. Oxford University Press.

2005  How Are Global Markets Global? The Architecture of a Flow World. In Knorr Cetina & Prada, eds., The Sociology of Financial Markets.

2005  Complex Global Microstructures: The New Terrorist Societies. In J. Urry ed., "Complexity," special issue of Theory, Culture and Society. 22:213-234.

2008  Microglobalization. In I. Rossi, ed. Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. New York: Springer, 65-93.

2009  The Synthetic Situation: Interactionism for a Global World.  Interaction. 32(1): 61-87.