Professor of Sociology, University of Constance, Constance, Germany
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Karin Knorr Cetina is Professor of Sociology at
the University of Constance, Germany, Visiting Professor
at the University of Chicago, USA, and a member
of the Institute for World-Society Studies, University
of Bielefeld, Germany. In addition to her three
degrees, she has received several honors, including
Vienna University's Fellowship for the Gifted. She
was a Ford Foundation post-doctoral fellow, a member
of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
president of the International Society for Social
Studies of Science, and she is a future member of
the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences in Palo Alto, CA. She has published numerous
papers and books, including Epistemic Cultures:
How the Sciences Make Knowledge [1999, Harvard],
which received the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society
for Social Studies of Science and the Robert K.
Merton Prize of the American Sociological Association.
Among other things, she is currently working on
information knowledge in global financial markets
and preparing a book which analyzes the impact of
the life sciences in connection with other developments
on social and cultural change in Western societies.
The book will have the title The Culture of Life. |
