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100 1 $aBowker, Geoffrey C.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSorting things out :$bclassification and its consequences /$cGeoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star.
246 30 $aClassification and its consequences
250 $aFirst MIT Press paperback edition.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bMIT Press,$c2000.
264 4 $c©1999
300 $axii, 377 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aInside technology
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 335-365) and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction: To classify is human -- Some tricks of the trade in analyzing classification. Classification and large-scale infrastructures -- The kindness of strangers: Kinds and politics in classification systems -- The ICD (International Classification of Diseases) as information infrastructure -- Classification, coding, and coordination. Classification and biography, or system and suffering -- Of tuberculosis and trajectories -- The case of race classification and reclassification under apartheid. Classification and work practice -- What a difference a name makes: The classification of nursing work -- Organizational forgetting, nursing knowledge, and classification. The theory and practice of classifications -- Categorical work and boundary infrastructures: Enriching theories of classification -- Why classifications matter.
520 $aWhat 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. 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. This book 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.
650 0 $aKnowledge, Sociology of.
650 0 $aClassification.
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650 7 $aKnowledge, Sociology of.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00988190
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650 7 $aWissenssoziologie$2gnd
655 0 $aClassification.
700 1 $aStar, Susan Leigh,$d1954-2010,$eauthor.
830 0 $aInside technology.
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