1. What are the purposes of Classification?
... of our world. Social Systems to deal with the people around us. We walk down the street and as we do we classify and categorise the world around us. We 'pigeon-hole' the people around us by their clothing, see students, workers, mothers, upper and lower classes without even a second though. Bowker says, "a classification is a spatial, temporal or spatio-temporal segmentation ... ...
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