Theory, Knowledge, Culture
This research area deals with shifting orders and practices of knowledge in the context of socio-technical and socio-digital transformation. Artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems for automation affect knowledge practices and normative orders in various fields of action, including the formation of scientific and social science knowledge. In the face of authoritarian appropriations of these technologies in contemporary post-liberal, anti-democratic politics, the aim of this research area is to explore the conditions for a resilient, democracy-strengthening foundation of knowledge in a digitalised society.
Assistant Professor Dr Bettina Mahlert
Associate Professor Dr Silvia Rief
Sarah von Karger Bakk. MA (on leave)
Centre for Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI)
FSP EPoS Economy, Politics & Society
Research Centre Cultures in Contact
Harvard Culture and Social Analysis Workshop
Department of Sociology, University of Debre Markos, Ethiopia
Department of Sociology, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Section History of Sociology of the Austrian Sociological Association
Section Sociological Theory of the German Sociological Association
History of Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association
Initiative for Science in Europe
European Sociological Association
International Sociological Association: Research Committee 16 (RC16) on Sociological Theory
American Sociological Association (ASA): Section History of Sociology and Social Thought