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. 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. 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."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass. : : MIT Press,., 1999.

Collation

1 online resource (xii, 377 pages) :illustrations, maps.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780262269070

Classification

-

Content Type

-

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Knowledge, Sociology of.
Classification.

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star.

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment