CBS researcher wins major American book prize
Christian Borch’s book, ”The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology”, studies the concept of crowds in German, French and American history of sociology. It is not a typical business school text book but rather a piece of theoretical work which Borch defended as his doctor’s dissertation last year.
- I am very honored that the committee recognizes my work and associates me with extremely skilled researchers within my field. I am now in extremely good company. Despite the fact that I have been fairly critical of the American research tradition, they have still chosen to give the prize to me: A non US-resident. I am really excited about that”, says Christian Borch.
Christian will go to USA after the summer holidays to accept the prize which has been awarded since 1980. He is now in the company of prominent researchers such as Andrew Abbott (University of Chicago), Mark Granovetter (who is quoted more than 30,000 times since he won in 1985) and from Austria, Karin Knorr Cetina (now University of Chicago), who has contributed a ground-breaking European point of view with "Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets”.
The committee said about the book: “ it stood out as a fresh, deeply grounded, and productive interpretation of sociological theory”.