Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Qualitative Methods
- Work, Stratification and Markets
Areas of Interest
- Data & technology
- Cultural sociology
- Economic sociology
- Inequality
- Insecurity
Biography
Jordan Brensinger is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He studies how organizations use data and technology to manage people and the implications of those systems for everyday life. He is especially interested in how those systems shape the prospects for thriving organizations and societies. His current book project, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, investigates how cases of identity theft get resolved. It explores the experiences of victims and professionals as they negotiate data disputes and their aftermath, using those experiences to help us better understand how organizations link data to people as well as the implications of those processes–and personal data–for the everyday lives of those they target.
Recent Publications
Brensinger, Jordan. 2023. “Identity Theft, Trust Breaches, and the Production of Economic Insecurity.” American Sociological Review. 88(5):844-871. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224231189895
Brensinger, Jordan* and Ramina Sotoudeh. 2022. “Party, Race, and Neutrality: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes Toward Social Groups.” American Sociological Review 87(6):1049-1093. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224221135797
Brensinger, Jordan and Gil Eyal. 2021. “The Sociology of Personal Identification.” Sociological Theory 39(4): 265-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751211055771