Research Expertise and Interest

culture, social theory, political sociology, economic sociology, comparative methods, knowledge and science

Research Description

Marion Fourcade is Professor of Sociology and Director of Social Science Matrix at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s (Princeton University Press, 2009) and numerous articles on valuation, knowledge, and politics in comparative perspective. Her second book, The Ordinal Society (with Kieran Healy, Harvard University Press 2024), describes the social and economic consequences of a new regime of knowledge, where people can be seen and scaled by way of behavioral data harvested through digital environments. Professor Fourcade is a recipient of the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award, the Society for the Social Studies of Science's Ludwik Fleck prize for outstanding book in science and technology studies, and the Lewis Coser award for theoretical agenda setting. She has held Visiting Professorships at the Institute for Advanced Study and at Princeton University and is a past President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Website: www.marionfourcade.org

Fourcade is also an Associate Fellow of the Max Planck-Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (Maxpo).