Sorting Things Out. Classification and its Consequences.
1999PW1093Cambridge MA:: MIT Press 1999. 1999. 8vo. xii 377 1 pp. Figs. index. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0262522950 A major comparative study of systems of large-scale classification. See book review by Stefan Helmreich "Torqing Things Out" Science Technology & Human Values Vol. 28 No. 3 Summer 2003 pp. 435-440. Bowker is a professor of Informatics at UC Irvine. Susan Leigh Star American sociologist UCSD "She specialized in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work and the history of science medicine technology and communication/information systems." She is called by some "one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades." MIT Press, 1999. unknown books
