Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Susan Leigh Star
Published 2000 · 106,975 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences to read?
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences scores 65 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 68 out of 100
- Information-science and STS vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Clear but technical academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Classification treated as infrastructure and as politics.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Dense with case material from medicine and apartheid records.
How Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences is regarded
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences holds a literary regard score of 65 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.