Sorting Things Out
Sorting Things Out 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…
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Sorting Things Out
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? Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. All are examples of classification--the scaffolding of information infrastructures.In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C.
In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of
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