Hughes Corriveau

Bio: Hughes Corriveau is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 172 citations.

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

Abstract: What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification -- the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.

Building Information Infrastructures for Social Worlds - The Role of Classifications and Standards

Abstract: Through an analysis of information systems in medical communities - notably the development of the International Classification of Diseases and the design of a Nursing Interventions Classification scheme - we argue that community systems designers necessarily build for multiple social worlds simultaneously. So doing, we argue, they make a series of significant social and political choices. We draw some design implications from this observation: notably arguing for a sensitivity to the nature of the work of representing a community to itself.

L'empathie et ses degrés

Abstract: Cet article presente une typologie des degres de l'empathie, qui s'appuie sur une analyse des differentes composantes du processus emotionnel et examine les processus cognitifs associes s a chaque degre d'empathie.

A influência da atividade física regular sobre o autoconceito

Abstract: The objective of this research was to study the effect of regular physical activity of men and women over 40 on their self-concept. The Self-concept Factorial Scale was administered to 200 subjects, half of them practicing some kind of regular physical activity and the other half being sedentary. The Anova 2X2 revealed a main effect of physical activity and gender on several factors of the self-concept. The scores were higher for the experimental group on self-confidence, self-control, and somatic self. Men scored higher on self-confidence while women on moral self. It was concluded that regular physical activity is beneficial for self-concept.

Translation and rewriting in the age of post-translation studies: by Edwin Gentzler, New perspectives in translation studies, edited by Michael Cronin. Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2017, 250 pp., £105.00 (hardback), 978-1-138-66685-6, £28.99 (paperback), 978-1-138-66686-3, £26.09 (e-book), 978-1-315-61919-4

Abstract: Translation has gone from being the ‘poor relation’ in comparative literature to a key condition for meaningful engagement with world literature. Rather than focusing on what is lost in translation...