Geoffrey C. Bowker & Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences, 1999
Source SRC-THEORY-BOWKER-STAR-1999
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- Book (monograph)
- Role
- Primary text of a theory
- Institutional position
- Not stated in the source record
Version
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Concepts this source states or develops
- Primary articulation of Classification as infrastructure
Claims that cite this source
Raw record: coded values of this source record
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- Source-level roles
- PRIMARY_THEORY
- Visibility
- PUBLIC_REFERENCE
- Registry section
- THEORY / CONCEPT PROOF SOURCES
- Registry “Linked claim” (logical Claim identity; never a pinned version)
- none
- Cited in field 6 of
- none
- Source → Concept relations
- PRIMARY_ARTICULATION → Classification as infrastructure (as printed: “PRIMARY_ARTICULATION”)
Registry record (verbatim)
- Canonical label
- Geoffrey C. Bowker & Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences, 1999
- Class
- PRIMARY_THEORY
- Role
- PRIMARY_ARTICULATION
- Concept
- Classification as infrastructure
Research-of-record provenance
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Frozen Drive-derived inputs
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- VISIBILITY = PUBLIC_REFERENCE — basis: Explicit public provenance selection by CONCEPT THEORY-CLASSIFICATION (Source relation of a public Concept rendering (Amendment v1.2 §4)) (Amendment v1.2 §4, §6).