Source SRC-THEORY-BOWKER-STAR-1999
Geoffrey C. Bowker & Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences, 1999
Open the original (DOI; link checked 2026-10-12)
- Source class (bibliographic)
- MONOGRAPH
- Source-level roles
- PRIMARY_THEORY
- Institutional position
- not stated by the Registry
- Visibility
- PUBLIC_REFERENCE
- Registry section
- THEORY / CONCEPT PROOF SOURCES
Version
Pinned version v1.0 (entry SRC-THEORY-BOWKER-STAR-1999--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.
This pinned version is also the current version.
Source → Concept relations (Registry, verbatim label kept)
- PRIMARY_ARTICULATION → Classification as infrastructure (as printed: “PRIMARY_ARTICULATION”)
Linked Claims
Registry “Linked claim” (logical Claim identity; never a pinned version): none.
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
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 4b074935f391fdbfa9b7bf3ea9f741d02fe650f340f93556d99dafd80ff6901c.
Frozen Drive-derived inputs
- SocioLens — Proof Source Registry v0.4 (v0.4) — Drive ID
1_-GLmj6PfetWDQH2KldMv-61vmSmzdAyyxgZZZCFnbE; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified 2026-09-27T19:04:00.374Z; block “REGISTRY ENTRY SRC-THEORY-BOWKER-STAR-1999” SHA-256b4f40843db2c30171ea6f6ded1d107f632711ca3e06eecf8ba0162efbf20f85e; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT PROOF SOURCE REGISTRY.”; frozen fixturefixtures/frozen/proof-source-registry-v0.4.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: First SocioLens materialized record for this Source identity; no predecessor record exists (Proof Source Registry v0.3; Publication System Amendment v1.2 §4). SocioLens Source-record version, not the external source's edition, revision or version of record.
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "SocioLens — Proof Source Registry v0.4": "CURRENT PROOF SOURCE REGISTRY."
- 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).