Marion Fourcade

Marion Fourcade is a Professor of Sociology and Director of Social Science Matrix at the University of California, Berkeley. As a comparative sociologist, her work examines national variations in knowledge systems, economic practices, and digital societal transformations. She has held visiting professorships at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University, and serves as an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

• Key Positions: Director, Social Science Matrix; Past President, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
• Recognitions: Distinguished Book Award (ASA); Ludwik Fleck Prize (4S); Lewis Coser Award

Her research bridges economic sociology, political sociology, and science & technology studies, focusing on:

• Ordinal classification systems in digital capitalism
• Algorithmic governance and moral economies of technology
• Comparative professional cultures (especially economics)
• State digitalization and data-driven stratification
• Neoliberal institutional transformations
• Cultural dimensions of market valuation

Recent work analyzes:

• Algorithmic societal organization (The Ordinal Society, 2024)
• Behavioral data-based social sorting
• Digital statecraft and financial market regulation
• Gift economies in platform capitalism
• Recursive interactions between social and machine learning

Scientific awards include:

• 2024 Distinguished Book Award (ASA) for The Ordinal Society
• 2024 Ludwik Fleck Prize (4S) for STS contributions
• 2016 Lewis Coser Award for theoretical agenda-setting