Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Susan Leigh Star, Geoffrey C. Bowker

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

Susan Leigh Star, Geoffrey C. Bowker

392 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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