# Sorting Things Out

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- Book: [Sorting Things Out](https://www.bookquiver.com/geoffrey-c-bowker/sorting-things-out) ([Sorting Things Out.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/geoffrey-c-bowker/sorting-things-out.md))
- Authors: [Geoffrey C. Bowker](https://www.bookquiver.com/geoffrey-c-bowker), [Susan Leigh Star](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-leigh-star)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6252-295-3
- Pages: 392
- Published: 2000-08-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include " fainted in...