{"product_id":"the-ordinal-society-9780674971141","title":"The Ordinal Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe now live in an \"ordinal society.\" Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe personal data we give in exchange for convenient tools like Gmail and Instagram provides the raw material for predictions about everything from our purchasing power to our character. \u003ci\u003eThe Ordinal Society\u003c\/i\u003e shows how these algorithmic predictions influence people's life chances and generate new forms of capital and social expectation: nobody wants to ride with an unrated cab driver anymore or rent to a tenant without a risk score. As members of this society embrace ranking and measurement in their daily lives, new forms of social competition and moral judgment arise. Familiar structures of social advantage are recycled into measures of merit that produce insidious kinds of social inequality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile we obsess over order and difference--and the logic of ordinality digs deeper into our behaviors, bodies, and minds--what will hold us together? Fourcade and Healy warn that, even though algorithms and systems of rationalized calculation have inspired backlash, they are also appealing in ways that make them hard to relinquish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marion Fourcade, Kieran Healy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 5.59w x 1.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674971141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFourcade, Marion:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Marion Fourcade is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of \u003ci\u003eEconomists and Societies\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHealy, Kieran:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kieran Healy is Professor of Sociology at Duke University and the author of \u003ci\u003eData Visualization\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLast Best Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43778254078067,"sku":"9.78067E+12","price":63.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_8300ec79-5a6c-4629-b28a-64d17646e73b.jpg?v=1757507192","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-ordinal-society-9780674971141","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}