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Sophie Mützel Ph.D.

Portrait Sophie Mützel Ph.D. (David Ausserhofer)
Research Fields
  • economic sociology
  • sociology of culture
  • network theory and network analysis
  • relational sociology
  • organizational sociology
  • Innovation, Knowledge, and Culture
Contact
fon: +49 30 25491 213
fax: +49 30 25491 209
mail: muetzel [at] wzb [dot] eu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Research Fellow of the Research Unit
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02 2012 - 05 2012
Visiting Scholar,  Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge.

10 2011 - 01 2012
Professorship "Sociological Theories, Sociology of Culture, and Economic Sociology", visiting professorship, Department of Sociology, University Vienna.

since 01 2009
Senior Research Fellow, research unit "Cultural Sources of Newness", Social Science Research Center Berlin (on parental leave 01 2010-12 2010).

10 2003 - 12 2008
Assistant Professor, Research Unit Comparative Structural Analysis, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin (on parental leave 09 2005 - 03 2006; currently on leave).

2002 - 2003
Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence.

2002
Columbia University, New York, NY, Ph.D. in Sociology

1998
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, M.A. in Sociology

1993
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, B.A. in Political Science


Selected Publications
  • Fuhse, Jan/Mützel, Sophie (2011): "Tackling Connections, Structure, and Meaning in Networks. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Sociological Network Research". In: Quality & Quantity, Vol. 45, No. 5, S. 1067-1089.
  • Fuhse, Jan/Mützel, Sophie (Hg.) (2010): Relationale Soziologie. Zur kulturellen Wende der Netzwerkforschung. Netzwerkforschung, Bd. 2. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 293 S.
  • Mützel, Sophie (2010): "Koordinierung von Märkten durch narrativen Wettbewerb". In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, S. 87-106.
  • Mützel, Sophie (2009): "Networks as Culturally Constituted Processes. A Comparison of Relational Sociology and Actor-Network Theory". In: Current Sociology, Vol. 57, No. 6, S. 871-887.
  • Mützel, Sophie (2009): "Geschichten als Signale. Zur diskursiven Konstruktion von Märkten". In: Rainer Diaz-Bone/Gertraude Krell (Hg.): Diskurs und Ökonomie. Diskursanalytische Perspektiven auf Märkte und Organisationen. Interdisziplinäre Diskursforschung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, S. 225-244.
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