More on Classifications


Bowker, Geoffrey C.; Star, Susan Leigh (2000): Sorting Things Out. Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Desrosières, Alain (2005): The Politics of Large Numbers. A History of Statistical Reasoning. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Douglas, Mary (1987): How Institutions Think. London: Routledge.

Hacking, Ian (1986): Making Up People. In Thomas C. Heller, Christine Brooke-Rose (Eds.): Reconstructing Individualism. Autonomy, Individuality, and the Self in Western Thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 161–171.

Roth, Wolff-Michael, Making Classifications (at) Work: Ordering Practices in Science. In Social Studies of Science 35 (4), pp. 581-620.

Suchman, Lucy (1994): Do Categories Have Politics? The Language-Action Perspective Reconsidered. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2 (3), pp. 177–190.

Thévenot, Laurent (1984): Rules and Implements. Investment in Forms. In Social Science Information 23 (1), pp. 1–45.

Yanow, D. (2002): Constructing "Race" and "Ethnicity" in America: Category-Making in Public Policy and Administration. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe.  

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