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residual categories: a standalone construct

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Science and technology studies

the leftover categories such as other or not elsewhere classified, whose contents reveal what a classification system leaves unseen.

In science and technology studies, residual categories refers to the leftover categories such as other or not elsewhere classified, whose contents reveal what a classification system leaves unseen. This meaning comes from Bowker (1999) in Sorting Things Out.[1]

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boundary infrastructure1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructinfrastructural inversion1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructresidual4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

  1. Bowker, G. C., & Star, S. L. (1999). Sorting Things Out. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/6352.001.0001

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