4276 - Emerging Economies of Moral Judgment

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Recent research on markets and stratification has emphasized the increasingly intensive use of automated methods of rating and scoring across a range of market and non-market settings, often as a means of allocating people to "classification situations" that materially affect their life-chances. These tools are taking hold across institutional settings. This session explores the nature and effects of these economies of moral judgment.

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Culture / Emerging Economies of Moral Judgment

Session Organizers

• Kieran Healy, Duke University

• Marion Fourcade, University of California-Berkeley

Presider

• Kieran Healy, Duke University

Individual Presentations

• The Moral Economy of Quantification Devices: Factoring Class Inequality into School Valuation in Chile - Gabriel Chouhy, University of Pittsburgh

• The Moral Economy of the Algorithm: Personhood and the Politics of Classification - Greta R. Krippner, University of Michigan

• The Moral Limits of Predictive Practices: The Case of Credit-based Insurance Scores - Barbara Kiviat, Harvard University

Discussant

• Kieran Healy, Duke University