BESI is excited to host a talk by Marion Fourcade, Professor of Sociology at Berkeley, celebrating the publication of her book, “The Ordinal Society,” co-authored with Kieran Healy. Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Fourcade and Healy argue that technologies of information management, fueled by the abundance of personal data and the infrastructure of the internet, transform how we relate to ourselves and to each other through the market, the public sphere, and the state.

Co-sponsored by Social Science Matrix, Berkeley Sociology, and the UC Berkeley School of Information

December 5, 2024 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 820 Social Sciences Building | Register Now