PDF 2. Skip to main content. Books Journals Reference Works Topics. Buy The Book. ISBN: pp. August Cognitive Anthropology Nativism. Ambiguity Language. Sorting Things Out. 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.
The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures. This book provides a tool to help all of us—from designers of technical systems to users of e-mail—understand and knowledgeably influence the infrastructures that shape our lives. Sorting Things Out is a brilliant dissection of a fundamental facet of social life. Its analytic comparisons shed new light on familiar problems which plague all the social sciences. Cyrus C. Brice Laurent. Search Search.
Search Advanced Search close Close. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. 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. 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. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.
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