Reading Glushko by Billie Coxhead https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying Categorising vs. classifying en-us 2016-11-30 19:42:14 UTC 2025-11-19 13:55:55 UTC hello@padlet.com bjcoxhead1 https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140957496 ..."institutional categories are usually defined to change or control the world by imposing semantic models that are more formal and arbitrary than those in cultural categories"
p241]]> 2016-11-30 20:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140957496 Classification: bjcoxhead1 https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140958973 "the systematic assignment of resources to categories in an organizing system"
p241]]> 2016-11-30 20:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140958973 Example of Institutional categories: Periodic table bjcoxhead1 https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140960321 The periodic table proved essentail to scientists in understanding their properties and in predicting undiscovered ones. Today the periodic table is taught in elementary schools 
p242]]> 2016-11-30 20:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140960321 Is there a difference between categorisation and classification? bjcoxhead1 https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140961686 No I think they rely on each other or are somewhat the same... what would we classify if there were no categories? 
Calssification is a structure to apply to the categories we have made Glushko explains this is often institutional categories that are intentional, a way of understanding and relating these categories further to a particular practice. 
Most classification schemes/systems are specific to the organisation, institution or subject]]> 2016-11-30 20:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140961686 Categorisation: bjcoxhead1 https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140961873 "Categories enable us to relate things to each other in terms of similarity and dissimilarity and are involved whenever we perceive, communicate, analyze, predict, or classify." 
p237]]> 2016-11-30 20:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140961873 bjcoxhead1 https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140962826 A system of categories captures the distinctions and relationships among its resources that are most important in a domain and for a particular context of use, creating a reference structure and support for the interactions that human or computational agents perform.
p274]]> 2016-11-30 20:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140962826 bjcoxhead1 https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140963428 Classification requires a system of categories
p274]]> 2016-11-30 20:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140963428 bjcoxhead1 https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140965130 "Without categories, we would perceive the world as an unorganized blur of things with no understandable or memorable relation to each other."
p237]]> 2016-11-30 20:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140965130 Mapping the terms: bjcoxhead1 https://padlet.com/bjcoxhead1/Categorisingvsclassifying/wish/140981211
  • categories are equivalence classes, that is, groups or classes of things, people, processes, events or anything else that we treat as equivalent
  • categorization is the process of assigning instances to categories
  • categories are cognitive and linguistic models
  • classification is the systematic assignment of resources to categories in an organizing system

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