Shoshana Zuboff

Shoshana Zuboff
Zuboff in 2019
Born	(1951-11-18) November 18, 1951 (age 72)
Title	Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita Harvard Business School
Spouse	Jim Maxmin (died 2016)
Children	2, including Chloe Maxmin
Academic background
Education	University of Chicago (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Thesis	The Ego at Work (1980)
Doctoral advisor	Herbert Kelman
Influences	Karl Marx Émile Durkheim Max Weber Hannah Arendt Theodor Adorno Karl Polanyi Jean-Paul Sartre[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Social Psychology, Information Systems
Sub-discipline	History of work history of capitalism adult development social psychology of technology
Institutions	Harvard Business School
Notable ideas	Surveillance capitalism
Website	shoshanazuboff.com

Shoshana Zuboff (born November 18, 1951)^[2] is an American author, professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar.

Zuboff is the author of the books In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power and The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, co-authored with James Maxmin. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, integrates core themes of her research: the Digital Revolution, the evolution of capitalism, the historical emergence of psychological individuality, and the conditions for human development.^[2]

Zuboff's work is the source of many original concepts including "surveillance capitalism", "instrumentarian power", the "division of learning in society", "economies of action", the "means of behavior modification", "information civilization", "computer-mediated work", the "automate/informate" dialectic, "abstraction of work", "individualization of consumption" and the "coup from above".