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Sorting Things Out - Classification and Its Consequences (Paperback, Revised)
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Sorting Things Out - Classification and Its Consequences (Paperback, Revised)
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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 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 viruses and of tuberculosis. The
authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which
classification orders human interaction. They examine how
categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change
this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of
classification as part of the built information environment. Much
as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning
decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of
classification design to understand how decisions have been made.
Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and
category valorizes some point of view and silences another.
Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs
are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others.
How these choices are made and how we think about that process are
at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an
important empirical source for understanding the building of
information infrastructures.
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