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Sorting things out; Classification and Its Consequences
"Dalam Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker dan Susan Leigh Star mengeksplorasi peran kategori dan standar dalam membentuk dunia modern. Mereka menyelidiki berbagai sistem klasifikasi, termasuk Klasifikasi Penyakit Internasional, Klasifikasi Intervensi Keperawatan, klasifikasi ras di bawah apartheid di Afrika Selatan, dan klasifikasi virus dan tuberkulosis. Para penulis menekankan peran ketid…
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Sorting things out :classification and its consequences
"In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. 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.…
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
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, Geo…
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