Sorting Things Out
Classification and Its Consequences (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14529150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry Lowood (0000-0003-4360-5360, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 392-394 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2001.0072 |
| OpenAlex | W2009946685 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star shed new light on a variety of classification systems and practices. The thrust of this eclectic and wide-ranging study is twofold: (1) classification is a ubiquitous [End Page 392] human activity; and (2) the ramifications of classification both as part of the information infrastructure and as a social practice affecting human lives deserve much greater attention than they have previously received. This wide-ranging study then instantiates these claims by closely examining instances of classification schemes, such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), the Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC), and the system of racial classification under apartheid in the former South Africa. In these studies the authors focus on both cultural and technical aspects of classification, especially the negotiations and implications affecting such fundamental social constructs as identity, disease, race, and work
Aesthetics · Data science · Identity (music) · Information retrieval · Intervention (counseling) · Negotiation · Race (biology) · Social science · Sociology · sort · Sorting · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Medical Coding and Health Information · Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |