Kieran Healy

Journal article Sociological Theory · June 1, 2017 Featured Publication Nuance is not a virtue of good sociological theory. Although often demanded and superficially attractive, nuance inhibits the abstraction on which good theory depends. I describe three "nuance traps" common in sociology and show why they should be avoided ... Full text Cite

Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body.

Journal article The American economic review · May 2017 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Seeing like a market

Journal article Socio Economic Review · January 1, 2017 Featured Publication What do markets see when they look at people? Information dragnets increasingly yield huge quantities of individual-level data, which are analyzed to sort and slot people into categories oftaste, riskiness or worth. These tools deepen the reach of the mark ... Full text Cite

Classification situations: Life-chances in the Neoliberal Era

Journal article Historical Social Research · January 1, 2017 Featured Publication This article examines the stratifying effects of economic classifications. We argue that in the neoliberal era market institutions increasingly use actuarial techniques to split and sort individuals into classification situations that shape life-chances. W ... Full text Cite

The Performativity of Networks

Journal article Archives Europeennes De Sociologie · August 7, 2015 Featured Publication The performativity thesis is the claim that parts of contemporary economics and finance, when carried out into the world by professionals and popularizers, reformat and reorganize the phenomena they purport to describe, in ways that bring the world into li ... Full text Cite