Professor Donald MacKenzie FBA

Sociology

Elected 2004

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2004
Sections: Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics, Management and Business Studies
Website: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/donald-mackenzie

Current post

Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology (personal chair)

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Reader in Sociology

1988 - 1992

University of Edinburgh Lecturer in Sociology

1975 - 1988

Publications

Inventing Accuracy: a Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance 1990

Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk and Trust 2001

An Engine, not a Camera: how Financial Models shape Markets 2006

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Mike Savage FBA

Historical sociology of 20th century Britain; the new middle classes, the changing nature of attachments to locality and place, the relationship between cultural inequalities and social class.

Professor Charles Baden-Fuller FBA

Strategy (what firms and other organisations do, should do and why): business models as models and the implications for the digital economy; managing strategy change in the face of uncertainty; cognitive challenges of executives; knowledge management in the context of networked enterprise; governance of organisations

Professor Lindsay Paterson FBA

Educational stratification; social mobility; education and civic values; history of education; the culture, society and politics of Scotland; quantitative methods in social science

Professor Donald MacKenzie FBA

Current post

Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology (personal chair)

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Reader in Sociology

1988 - 1992

University of Edinburgh Lecturer in Sociology

1975 - 1988

Publications

Inventing Accuracy: a Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance 1990

Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk and Trust 2001

An Engine, not a Camera: how Financial Models shape Markets 2006

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Mike Savage FBA

Professor Charles Baden-Fuller FBA

Professor Lindsay Paterson FBA

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Professor Donald MacKenzie FBA

Current post

Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology (personal chair)

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Reader in Sociology

1988 - 1992

University of Edinburgh Lecturer in Sociology

1975 - 1988

Publications

Inventing Accuracy: a Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance 1990

Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk and Trust 2001

An Engine, not a Camera: how Financial Models shape Markets 2006

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Mike Savage FBA

Professor Charles Baden-Fuller FBA

Professor Lindsay Paterson FBA

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