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Professor Donald MacKenzie FBA

Sociology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2004
Subjects
Business and management, Sociology
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 Patricia Thane FBA

History, Social History, Women's History, Political History, Economic History, History of Britain.

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Professor John Gray FBA

Sociology Western Europe USA, Canada and/or Mexico

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Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt FBA

Complexity and power theories as well as theories of individual and group cognition related to heuristics, analogies, and integrative thinking. Strategy as 'simple rules', strategic interaction in novel markets and ecosystems, strategy making by boards

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