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Biographical note:
Stefan Laube studied sociology at the University of Graz
(Austria) where he received his Master degree (2005) and held a research position. Currently he
is working as a research assistant at the University of Constance.
Research Interests:
Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Emotions,
Microsociology, Ethnography.
PhD-Project: Human/Object Relations in Finance and Economic Life
Based on ethnographic data I examine the relationship between professional financial traders
and the financial products they trade at the market. I seek to characterize this case of a
human-object relation not merely as instrumental or rational, but to explore its attentive,
affective, emotional, and embodied dimensions. I am interested in questions like: What are the
‘roles’ and ‘characteristics’ financial products and ‘the market’ acquire in the interaction with
traders? What ways of knowing and observing are required by objects like financial derivatives?
What is the role of information and visualization devices within that relation? In what ways do
traders rely on their emotions and the body when engaged in the market? What can we learn from
contrasting cases like call-center sales and customer services with regard to the question on how
human relations and interaction might be complemented and reconfigured by screen materiality?
Funded by DFG (Project: “Financial Technologies and their Consequences for the Organisation and
Performance of Financial Markets”; Head: Prof. K. Knorr Cetina) and EXC-16 “Cultural Foundations
of Integration” (Project: “Post-Social Mechanisms of Integration”; Head: Prof. K. Knorr Cetina).
Selected Works:
“The sounds of the market: How brokers at the electronic exchange keep the pace with a ‘silent’
market-on-screen”. Paper presented at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of
Sociology (IIS), Budapest, Hungary, June 26.-30., 2008.
“Barrieren, Brücken und Balancen. Gefühlsarbeit in der Altenpflege und im Call-Center“.
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2, 2008, Themenheft: Soziologie der Emotionen, 19-42.
(mit M. Egger de Campo).
“Unfreiwillige Helfer von Selbstmördern: Soziale Bedingungen emotionaler Belastung von
Lokführern durch Bahnsuizide und Formen ihrer Bewältigung“. Österreichische Zeitschrift
für Soziologie, 1, 2007, 25-41. (mit S. Ernst-Kaiser und R. Baumgartner).
“Inszenierungen des Unerwarteten. Einige Bemerkungen über das krisenexperimentelle Brechen
impliziter Verhaltensregeln als soziologische Methode, als populärkulturelles Unterhaltungsformat
und als Personalauswahlverfahren.“ Vortrag am Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für
Soziologie (ÖGS), Graz, 25.-27. September 2007.
“Professional Culture and Emotional Labour in a Call-Center. The Case of Anger and
Anger-Management Strategies”. Paper presented at 7th Conference of the European Sociological
Association (ESA), University of Torun, Poland, September 9.–12., 2005.
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