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Past Visitor

Karin Knorr Cetina

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Sociology
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Karin Knorr Cetina studies (sometimes extreme) expert systems. She is completing a book on institutional currency markets as a global cultural and social form that is based on scopic media mechanisms and partial organization. She is also interested in the financial imagination as characterized by counterfactual thinking and in market morality.

Dates at IAS

Visitor
School of Social Science
Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

University of Vienna
Ph.D.
1971

Appointments

Society for Social Studies of Science
1995–1997
President