# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karin-knorr-cetina
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:37:10.343Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karin-knorr-cetina"
name: "Karin Knorr Cetina"
slug: "karin-knorr-cetina"
description: "Karin Knorr Cetina is an Austrian sociologist well known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism, summarized in the books The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science (1981) and Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (1999). Currently, she focuses on the study of global microstructures and Social studies of finance. Knorr Cetina is the\nOtto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago."
tagline: "Austrian sociologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1944-07-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.553025333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Karin Knorr-Cetina"
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    title: "كارين كنور سيتينا"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Knorr_Cetina"
    title: "Karin Knorr Cetina"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump