About

Karin Knorr Cetina is a Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor, jointly appointed in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include financial markets, knowledge and information, globalization, theory, and culture. She is engaged in projects such as a book on global foreign exchange markets and on post-social knowledge societies. Her work continues to explore the information architecture of financial markets, their 'global microstructures'—the social and cultural forms these markets take—and trader markets in contrast to producer markets. She studies globalization from a microsociological perspective using ethnographic methods and maintains an interest in laboratory studies, focusing on science, technology, and information at sites of knowledge production, particularly in the life sciences and particle physics. Her scholarly contributions include examining the role of material, epistemic, consumer, and artificial objects in social life, with current dissertation projects exploring topics like global debt relief technologies, software systems within international organizations, and the conception and use of social robots across different countries.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Geography
• Biology
• Art
• Philosophy
• Ecology
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• Titelseiten

  Zeitschrift für Soziologie · 2024-05-22

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  Zeitschrift für Soziologie · 2023-08-23

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  Zeitschrift für Soziologie · 2023-06-01

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  Zeitschrift für Soziologie · 2022-11-03

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  Zeitschrift für Soziologie · 2022-09-01

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• Karin Knorr Cetina: An Interview with Alex Preda

  DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2021 · 2 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • Geography
  • Sociology

  Karin Knorr Cetina was already a well established figure in the Sociology of Science and Technology when, in the mid-1990s, she changed the focus of her ethnographic investigations to financial markets. What followed was a series of edited books and journal articles that made significant contributions to the Sociology of Finance. In this interview, Karin, who is the Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, reflects on the intellectual drivers of her research interests in financial markets, on the evolution and challenges of the field since the 1990s.

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• Die nächsten 50 Jahre

  transcript Verlag eBooks · 2021 · 1 citations

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  • Art
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• Contents

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020-08-27

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• 2. Intuitionist Theorizing

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020 · 4 citations

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  • Sociology
  • Sociology
  • Epistemology
  PublisherDOI

• Front Matter

  American Journal of Sociology · 2020-07-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Jörg Rössel

  University of Zurich

  178 shared

• Stefan Hinz

  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  178 shared

• Sabine Adam

  Walter de Gruyter (Germany)

  178 shared

• Werner Preisendörfer

  University of Kaiserslautern

  155 shared

• Ilona Nunner-Winkler

  Walter de Gruyter (Germany)

  153 shared

• Hendrik Bielefeld

  University of Kaiserslautern

  151 shared

• Wolfgang Schmidt

  Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica

  133 shared

• Hartmann Tyrell

  123 shared

Awards & honors

• Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor