Karin Knorr Cetina
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 153143 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Karin Knorr Cetina |
| PRENOMES | Karin Knorr |
| SOBRENOME | Cetina |
| ASSINATURA | CETINA K K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Konstanz |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1880 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
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Interrogating Datafication
What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices both theoretically and empirically. Which forms of cooperation are constituted in and by data practices? And how are human and nonhuman agencies distribu…
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“These Were Not Boring Meetings”
In this interview, Karin Knorr Cetina evokes the first Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science at Cornell University in 1976 as a foundational moment for science and technology studies (STS). This conference consolidated a new approach to the study of science based on the anthropological observation of scientists at work in the laboratory. Knorr Cetina argues that, despite geographically cementing in the United States, this ap…
Postsocial
Postsocial analysis asserts that social principles and structures as we have known them in the past are emptying out in modern societies and other elements and relationships are taking their place. It focuses on topics such as the massive expansion of object‐rich environments and the increased bonding power of contemporary objects; the capacity of objects to incorporate social power; and the rise of a biology and technology‐centered imagination t…
Epistemic Cultures
Advances in Social Theory and Methodology (RLE Social Theory)
After a period in which sociology was torn apart by the polarized claims of micro- and macro-methodology, an increasing number of sociologists are now attempting a fusion of the two approaches. In this volume, some of the most distinguished sociologists set out possible resolutions of the debate. Each of the chapters, placed in perspective by the editors’ prologue, approaches the problem from a unique angle. Aaron Cicourel argues for a macro-basi…
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. This publication brings together twenty-nine articles, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics related to the role of fina…
Skopische Medien
Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, eine Verbindung zwischen Mediensoziologie und Wirtschaftssoziologie herzustellen. Medienforscher gehen davon aus, dass gegenwärtige post-industrielle Gesellschaften von Medien durchdrungen und ohne diese nicht mehr vorstellbar sind. In Medientheorien wird dies als Prozess der ‚Mediatisierung‘ bzw. als ‚Mediatic Turn‘ thematisiert – als Kolonisierung der Alltags- bzw. Lebenswelt durch Informations- und Kommunikationste…
Global Finance And Its Institutional Spaces
"Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance brings together twenty-nine chapters, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of to…
The Epistemics of Information
This article explores the potential of a consumption model and consumption thinking for conceptualizing the epistemics of financial information. The argument rests on three characteristics of information knowledge. The first pertains to the nature and construction of reality to which information knowledge refers. That reality, this article argues, is not similar to the one most natural sciences assume: it is fluid and ever changing and does not c…
The Synthetic Situation
Presented as the Distinguished Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 1, 2008, this article rethinks central assumptions of the interaction order as conceptualized by Goffman and others with respect to global domains of activity.1 It proposes two new concepts, that of the synthetic situation and that of time transactions. Synthetic situations are situations that inclu…
What is a Pipe
This article is an attempt to make sociological sense of the 2008 American election - particularly of the phenomenological observation of extraordinary enchantment and almost amorous attraction which unlikely members of the American population displayed for Obama, from the early days of the campaign onward. I draw on charisma theory to argue that sociology has something surprising to say on the phenomenon, and on the metaphor of the pipe to add d…
Global markets as global conversations
Financial markets are one of the most iconic and influential structures of our time. The foreign exchange market in particular is also the most genuinely global market—and the largest market worldwide, with an average daily turnover of 1.8 trillion US dollars. The foreign exchange market is also structurally like a massive conversational interaction system; many of its transactions are conducted through electronically mediated ‘conversations’. Tr…
Epistemic Cultures
Global Microstructures
Using participant-observation data, interviews, and trading transcripts drawn from interbank currency trading in global investment banks, this article examines regular patterns of integration that characterize the global social system embedded in economic transactions. To interpret these patterns, which are global in scope but microsocial in character, this article uses the term "global microstructures." Features of the interaction order, loosely…
Sociality with Objects
L'A. s'efforce d'envisager la nature de la «socialite» et des relations sociales au sein des societes contemporaines marquees par des processus d'individualisation. Il se demande ce que signifie la notion d'individualisation, analyse les processus de transition post-sociale et met en lumiere certains phenomenes de «desocialisation». Il considere que les societes contemporaines vont voir emerger certains elements culturels tels l'expertise ou le s…
Traders' Engagement with Markets
This article focuses upon the construction of wants and the embodying of the market in the work routines of workers on the Swiss foreign exchange market. The authors are particularly concerned with the role of the computer screen within the establishment of postsocial relations around a sense of embodied lack. The screen does not provide access to the market but is the market as an exteriorized assemblage of practices brought together in one plac…
The Synthetic Situation
Presented as the Distinguished Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 1, 2008, this article rethinks central assumptions of the interaction order as conceptualized by Goffman and others with respect to global domains of activity.1 It proposes two new concepts, that of the synthetic situation and that of time transactions. Synthetic situations are situations that inclu…
The Market as an Object of Attachment
This paper rests on the assumption of an increased presence and relevance of object worlds in the social world.It holds that this influx of object worlds coincides with changing patterns of human relatedness that can be glossed by the notion postsocial forms.Postsocial forms include object-relationships where the objects are non-human entities.One characteristic of the present situation is that perhaps for the first time in recent history it appe…
Culture in global knowledge societies
This paper explores the concepts of knowledge culture and epistemic culture against the background of contemporary transformations in global society. Studies of knowledge culture came to prominence in the 1970s, with the trend towards laboratory fieldwork and direct observation in the new sociology of science. If the focus in such early studies was on knowledge construction, the focus in an epistemic culture approach by contrast is on the constru…
The Temporalization of Financial Markets
We analyze several financial market architectures and argue that, in the course of their development, at least some of them moved from a network-based configuration to one based on a scopic mode of coordination. In networks, the mechanism of coordination is relational and selective; coordination emerges from passing things through the pipes that link the actors in the network. A scopic mechanism, in contrast, works through collecting things and b…
Epistemic Cultures
Research Article| March 01 1991 Epistemic Cultures: Forms of Reason in Science Karin Knorr Cetina Karin Knorr Cetina 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (1): 105–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-23-1-105 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Karin Knorr Cetina; Epistemic Cultures: Forms of Reason in Science. History of P…
Complex Global Microstructures
The new terrorism is a major exemplifying case for complexity theory - for example, it exemplifies major disproportionalities between cause and effect, unpredictable outcomes, and self-organizing, emergent structures. It also illustrates, I argue in this article, the emergence of global microstructures: of forms of connectivity and coordination that combine global reach with microstructural mechanisms that instantiate self-organizing principles a…
From Pipes to Scopes
This article introduces a distinction between two types of markets and market coordination: those based on social networks and those based on a flow architecture. Flow architectures involve potentially global “scopic” reflex systems (GRSs) that project market reality while at the same time carrying it forward and allowing it to flow. The argument is that some financial markets have undergone a transition from a pre-reflexive network market to a r…
Inhabiting Technology
This paper focuses on institutional currency transactions as a global lifeform that inhabits technology during waking hours, is distributed across the three major time zones, and is nonetheless centered in and on itself - the lifeform constituted by the respective markets and participants in them. We argue that distribution and centering are not at odds with each other in the lifeform of these markets; that notions of interactions and networks em…
Primitive Classification and Postmodernity
Postmodernist thinking in sociology is easily dismissed as gibberish taken over from French intellectuals and literary critics surveying the world from their Parisian desks or, worse still, from the vantage point of their brief travels to La Californie.It can be seen as an ephemeral fashion taken up by social theorists who are out of ideas, theorists who are finally getting bored with reinterpreting Weber, Durkheim and Marx.)But it can also be se…
Strong Constructivism — from a Sociologist's Point of View
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The Market
Markets have led a shadowy existence in economics. The ruling paradigm, neoclassical economics, for which markets are a central institution, has mainly been concerned with the determination of market prices. Until recently, sociological investigations of modern markets focused on production, as did anthropological work that ascertained how each culture made a living. The major debate among anthropologists to date has been about whether the econom…
The Epistemics of Information
This article explores the potential of a consumption model and consumption thinking for conceptualizing the epistemics of financial information. The argument rests on three characteristics of information knowledge. The first pertains to the nature and construction of reality to which information knowledge refers. That reality, this article argues, is not similar to the one most natural sciences assume: it is fluid and ever changing and does not c…
Deconstruction in a `Thinking' Science
In this paper we apply the laboratory study approach of the new sociology of scientific practice to a `thinking science': theoretical physics. To specify the work and accomplishments of theoretical physicists we choose the notion of `deconstruction'. Deconstruction involves the expansion of a concrete object, such as an equation, into a series of other objects upon which the `hardness' of a problem can be shifted and distributed. In solving an eq…
The fixation of (visual) evidence
The Epistemization of Economic Transactions
The article examines the role played by non-academic economic knowledge in advanced economies with respect to market exchanges. Starting from arguments formulated in the neoclassic economic theory, as well as in the newer economic sociology, it shows that practical economic knowledge cannot be either reduced to a simplified notion of information, or regarded as external with respect to economic processes. On the basis of an ethnographic case stud…
Das naturwissenschaftliche Labor als Ort der „Verdichtung“ von Gesellschaft
Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es zu zeigen, daß sich das herrschende „Feindbild“ des Sozialen als dasjenige, das wissenschaftliche Resultate „verunreinigt“ und von außen infiltriert, bei Betrachtung der Forschungspraxis der Naturwissenschaften nicht aufrecht erhalten läßt. Das naturwissenschaftliche Labor zeigt sich vielmehr als ein Ort, an dem gesellschaftliche Praktiken für epistemische Zwecke instrumentalisiert und in Apparaturen der Erkenn…
What is a Pipe
This article is an attempt to make sociological sense of the 2008 American election - particularly of the phenomenological observation of extraordinary enchantment and almost amorous attraction which unlikely members of the American population displayed for Obama, from the early days of the campaign onward. I draw on charisma theory to argue that sociology has something surprising to say on the phenomenon, and on the metaphor of the pipe to add d…
Les épistémès de la société
On s'entend généralement aujourd'hui pour dire que les sociétés occidentales contemporaines sont régies, d'une manière oud'une autre, par le savoir et l'expertise. Cet article débute par une analyse des sociétés du savoir (knowledge societies ») d'unpoint de vue sociologique : Une telle analyse montre que les processus du savoir qui envahissent la vie contemporaine représententune force structurante qui façonne les formes d'ordre et d'existence d…
Zur Unterkomplexität der Differenzierungstheorie
Diese empirische Anfrage an die Differenzierungstheorie, insbesondere diejenige Luhmann’scher Prägung, gesteht dieser eine zwar analytisch lose, aber nichts destotrotz treffende Interpretation institutioneller Spezialisierung in modernen Gesellschaften zu. Was sie nicht zugesteht, ist eine adäquate Rekonstruktion der internen Umwelt bzw. des internen Funktionierens der in Frage stehenden Funktionsbereiche. Entgegen Charakterisierungen in den Term…
La technologie habitée
Le présent article s'intéresse au marché des changes en tant que forme de vie globale qui habite la technologie. Elle est distribuée sur les trois principaux fuseaux horaires et est néanmoins centrée en et sur elle-même : sur la forme de vie constituée par les marchés respectifs et ceux qui y participent. Les auteurs soutiennent que la distribution et le centrage ne sont pas contradictoires dans la forme de vie de ces marchés ; que les notions d'…
Merton's Sociology of Science
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Advances in Social Theory and Methodology
Introduction. The Micro-Sociological Challenge of Macro-Sociology: Towards a Reconstruction of Social Theory and Methodology K. Knorr-Cetina. Part 1. The Micro-Foundations of Social Knowledge 1. Notes on the Integration of Micro- and Macro-levels of Analysis A.V. Cicourel 2. Micro-translation as a Theory-Building Strategy R. Collins 3. Intermediate Steps between Micro- and Macro-Integration: the Case of Screening for Inherited Disorders T. Duster…
The Limits of Scientific Reasoning
Opening Pandora's Box
Das naturwissenschaftliche Labor als Ort der „Verdichtung“ von Gesellschaft
Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es zu zeigen, daß sich das herrschende „Feindbild“ des Sozialen als dasjenige, das wissenschaftliche Resultate „verunreinigt“ und von außen infiltriert, bei Betrachtung der Forschungspraxis der Naturwissenschaften nicht aufrecht erhalten läßt. Das naturwissenschaftliche Labor zeigt sich vielmehr als ein Ort, an dem gesellschaftliche Praktiken für epistemische Zwecke instrumentalisiert und in Apparaturen der Erkenn…
The fixation of (visual) evidence
Merton's Sociology of Science
published
Epistemic Cultures
Research Article| March 01 1991 Epistemic Cultures: Forms of Reason in Science Karin Knorr Cetina Karin Knorr Cetina 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (1): 105–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-23-1-105 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Karin Knorr Cetina; Epistemic Cultures: Forms of Reason in Science. History of P…
Zur Unterkomplexität der Differenzierungstheorie
Diese empirische Anfrage an die Differenzierungstheorie, insbesondere diejenige Luhmann’scher Prägung, gesteht dieser eine zwar analytisch lose, aber nichts destotrotz treffende Interpretation institutioneller Spezialisierung in modernen Gesellschaften zu. Was sie nicht zugesteht, ist eine adäquate Rekonstruktion der internen Umwelt bzw. des internen Funktionierens der in Frage stehenden Funktionsbereiche. Entgegen Charakterisierungen in den Term…
Strong Constructivism — from a Sociologist's Point of View
published
Primitive Classification and Postmodernity
Postmodernist thinking in sociology is easily dismissed as gibberish taken over from French intellectuals and literary critics surveying the world from their Parisian desks or, worse still, from the vantage point of their brief travels to La Californie.It can be seen as an ephemeral fashion taken up by social theorists who are out of ideas, theorists who are finally getting bored with reinterpreting Weber, Durkheim and Marx.)But it can also be se…
Deconstruction in a `Thinking' Science
In this paper we apply the laboratory study approach of the new sociology of scientific practice to a `thinking science': theoretical physics. To specify the work and accomplishments of theoretical physicists we choose the notion of `deconstruction'. Deconstruction involves the expansion of a concrete object, such as an equation, into a series of other objects upon which the `hardness' of a problem can be shifted and distributed. In solving an eq…
Floundering or Frolicking — How does Ethnography Fare in Theoretical Physics? (and What Sort of Ethnography?)
We suggest that comprehension of the nature of scientific controversy calls for analysis which extends beyond the confines of the professional scientific community. Linking theoretical concepts of contingent and constitutive forums with the idea of explicit and implicit rejection, we contend that the explanation for the shift between forums and modes of rejection in the course of scientific controversy can often be found outside the boundaries of…
Sociality with Objects
L'A. s'efforce d'envisager la nature de la «socialite» et des relations sociales au sein des societes contemporaines marquees par des processus d'individualisation. Il se demande ce que signifie la notion d'individualisation, analyse les processus de transition post-sociale et met en lumiere certains phenomenes de «desocialisation». Il considere que les societes contemporaines vont voir emerger certains elements culturels tels l'expertise ou le s…
Epistemic Cultures
The Market as an Object of Attachment
This paper rests on the assumption of an increased presence and relevance of object worlds in the social world.It holds that this influx of object worlds coincides with changing patterns of human relatedness that can be glossed by the notion postsocial forms.Postsocial forms include object-relationships where the objects are non-human entities.One characteristic of the present situation is that perhaps for the first time in recent history it appe…
Postsocial Relations
The Epistemization of Economic Transactions
The article examines the role played by non-academic economic knowledge in advanced economies with respect to market exchanges. Starting from arguments formulated in the neoclassic economic theory, as well as in the newer economic sociology, it shows that practical economic knowledge cannot be either reduced to a simplified notion of information, or regarded as external with respect to economic processes. On the basis of an ethnographic case stud…
Les épistémès de la société
On s'entend généralement aujourd'hui pour dire que les sociétés occidentales contemporaines sont régies, d'une manière oud'une autre, par le savoir et l'expertise. Cet article débute par une analyse des sociétés du savoir (knowledge societies ») d'unpoint de vue sociologique : Une telle analyse montre que les processus du savoir qui envahissent la vie contemporaine représententune force structurante qui façonne les formes d'ordre et d'existence d…
Traders' Engagement with Markets
This article focuses upon the construction of wants and the embodying of the market in the work routines of workers on the Swiss foreign exchange market. The authors are particularly concerned with the role of the computer screen within the establishment of postsocial relations around a sense of embodied lack. The screen does not provide access to the market but is the market as an exteriorized assemblage of practices brought together in one plac…
Inhabiting Technology
This paper focuses on institutional currency transactions as a global lifeform that inhabits technology during waking hours, is distributed across the three major time zones, and is nonetheless centered in and on itself - the lifeform constituted by the respective markets and participants in them. We argue that distribution and centering are not at odds with each other in the lifeform of these markets; that notions of interactions and networks em…
Global Microstructures
Using participant-observation data, interviews, and trading transcripts drawn from interbank currency trading in global investment banks, this article examines regular patterns of integration that characterize the global social system embedded in economic transactions. To interpret these patterns, which are global in scope but microsocial in character, this article uses the term "global microstructures." Features of the interaction order, loosely…
From Pipes to Scopes
This article introduces a distinction between two types of markets and market coordination: those based on social networks and those based on a flow architecture. Flow architectures involve potentially global “scopic” reflex systems (GRSs) that project market reality while at the same time carrying it forward and allowing it to flow. The argument is that some financial markets have undergone a transition from a pre-reflexive network market to a r…
La technologie habitée
Le présent article s'intéresse au marché des changes en tant que forme de vie globale qui habite la technologie. Elle est distribuée sur les trois principaux fuseaux horaires et est néanmoins centrée en et sur elle-même : sur la forme de vie constituée par les marchés respectifs et ceux qui y participent. Les auteurs soutiennent que la distribution et le centrage ne sont pas contradictoires dans la forme de vie de ces marchés ; que les notions d'…
Capturing markets? A review essay on Harrison White on producer markets
This essay explores White's arguments in Markets from Networks (2002), high-lighting differences and analogies to economic models of markets and the com-plexity of White's approach. It argues that construing markets from the viewpoint of producer firms ' market strategies may be theoretically limiting and politically inadequate in a world increasingly characterized by market mechanisms and by struggles over the definition of markets.
Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory
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