… In its cultural and workplace dimensions, it offers insights into the problematics of … of
classification systems, and a lens for examining their impact. It looks at these processes as a sort of …

… at how the various kinds of classification we have discussed knit together to form the texture
of a social space. We move from classifying and boundary objects to categorical work and …

… In its cullural and workplace dimensions, it oflers insights into the proble matics of design of
classification systems, and a lens for examining their impact. It looks at these processes as a …

… their uses will find much of interest. A number of relevant issues might spring to the attention
of CSCW practitioners from a careful reading of ‘Sorting Things Out’… classification, and why it …

… On this matter of the power of classification to shape self-identity, … , Sorting Things Out is
unique in its painstaking attention to details and observation of multifaceted causes and effects. …

… Sorting things out—especially things like race—as Bowker and Star edge us toward doing,
… shifting schemes, means, and meanings of such constitutively contradictory classification. …

… the scholarly literature on classification by demonstrating the effects of such administrative
… concerned the results of the project. This does not exclude other possible classifications; …

… on them by formal classification schemes. This dichotomy … of real life classification taken up
in Sorting Things Out. However, … set out in the DFAA, eligibility, has the opposite effect. Rather …

… , while weighted sorting can deal with items from different levels of … It involves a second step
after sorting items into groups … According to Harloff (2005b) free sorting results from sorting …

… way of doing it has yielded results when practised by all the great metaphysicians up to the
… But the perlocutionary act of getting them to do something is a quite different thing from the …