Sorting Things Out - Classification and Its Consequences; by Geoffrey C. Bowker & Susan Leigh Star

Abstract

P. 3 the material force of categories appears always and instantly... For all this importance, classifications and standards occupy a pecular place in the studies of social order... Some historians have examined the explosion of natural history and medical classifications in the late nineteenth century, both as a political force ans as an orgianzing rubric for complex bureaucracies... thw politieke invloed van classificatie in demedische wetenschap bij v. de demedicalisatie van homosexualiteit (p. 4)...Philosophers and statisticians have produced highly formal discussion of classification theory, but few empirical studies of use or impact. de rol van de ideologie in DSM. raciale categorieen . P. 5: No one, including Foucault, has systematically tackled the question of how these properties inform social and moral ordervia the new technological and electronic infrastructure