Sorting Things Out
Classification and Its Consequences
A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include fainted in a bath, frighted, and itch); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification—the scaffolding of information infrastructures.In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investig…
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Weitere Autoren: Star, Susan Leigh
- ISBN: 978-0-262-52295-3
- EAN: 9780262522953
- Produktnummer: 1432155
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.3 cm 538 g
- Gewicht: 538
Über den Autor
Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences and the author of Memory Practices in the Sciences, both published by the MIT Press.Susan Leigh Star was Doreen Boyce Chair for Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh.
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