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. -- JoAnne Yates, Professor of Communication, Information, and Organization Studies, Sloan School of Management, MIT 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. -- Howard S. Becker, University of California-Santa Barbara
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.
" 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
" 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
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