Professor Donald MacKenzie FBA

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

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 John Scott FBA

Social stratification and power, property ownership and business organisation; theory and its history in sociology, early British sociology; social network analysis, research methodology, the use of documents in social research.

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Professor Kelvyn Jones FBA

Quantitative social science methodology; geography of health; social geography

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Professor Peter W. F. Smith FBA

Social statistics; statistical methodology, methods for analysing administrative data and paradata, Bayesian population forecasts, modelling longitudinal data; applying sophisticated statistical methods to problems in demography, medicine and health sciences

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