Classificatory Transformation in Evaluative and Administrative Processes (Series Note 20)

This publication is part of the series Public Analytical Notes within the community Criteriology in Practice: Public Analytical Notes. The present note introduces classificatory transformation as an analytical concept describing configurations in which an identifiable informational, evaluative, or procedural element remains identifiable while the classificatory relations through which it is positioned change. The concept distinguishes continuity of the element or visible label from continuity of classificatory configuration. Such transformation may concern relations to categories, criteria, documentary contexts, procedural tracks, competence structures, administrative representations, selection, relevance, or subsequent operations. The note is descriptive and analytical and does not establish causal, normative, evidentiary, or legal conclusions.