Categorization and Naming

Posted by Nancy Van House on August 04th 2011 to

Bowker, G. C., & Star, S. L. (1999). Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences. Cambridge: MIT Press.  Won an award from 4S as best STS book of its year.

Available online via campus library: MIT via CogNet. Restricted to UC campuses.

  • Introduction;
  • ch. 1, Some Tricks of the Trade;
  • ch. 7, What a Difference a Name Makes: the Classification of Nursing Work;
  • ch. 8, Organizational Forgetting, Nursing Knowledge, and Classification;
  • ch. 10, Why Classification Matters.

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