Sorting Things Out
Classification and Its Consequences
$112.52
- Paperback
389 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2000
Summary
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 Ou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262522953 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262522950 |
| Author: | Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 389 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2000 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
” Sorting Things Out is a brilliant dissection of a fundamental facet ofsocial life. Its analytic comparisons shed new light on familiar problemswhich plague all the social sciences.” Howard S. Becker , University of California-Santa Barbara
About The Author
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of Sorting Things Out- Classification and Its Consequences and the author of Memory Practices in the Sciences, both published by the MIT Press.Susan Leigh Star was Doreen Boyce Chair for Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.