Howard Saul Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4488003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Saul Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard Saul |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER H S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 421 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Erzählen über Gesellschaft
Evidence
Institutions and the Person
Evidence
Oward S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher, as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quartet of sociological guidebooks: Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade, Telling About Society, and What About Mozart? What About Murder? It turns out that the master sociologist has yet one more trick up his sleeve a fifth guidebook, Evidence. Becker has for seventy years been mulling over the prob…
Sociological Work
Howard S. Becker's *Sociological Work: Method and Substance* compiles revised versions of his previously published essays, offering a comprehensive overview of his distinctive approach to sociological research and writing. The book emphasizes the importance of developing a sociological perspective, grounded in observation and empirical investigation, rather than relying on pre-conceived theories. Becker explores various aspects of the craft of so…
What About Mozart? What About Murder?
Außenseiter
Außenseiter
"Do You Know…?"
Art Worlds
A classic sociological examination of art as collective action, Art Worlds explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers that - along with the artist - "produces" a work of art. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition is updated with a new dialogue between Becker and eminent French sociologist Alain Pessin about the extended social system in which art is created and with a new preface in which the author…
Art Worlds, 25th Anniversary Edition
Howard S. Becker's *Art Worlds* has become a classic in the sociology of art since its original publication in 1982. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new preface by Becker, reflecting on the book's impact and the development of the field, as well as responses from prominent scholars in art and cultural sociology. *Art Worlds* analyzes the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventi…
Telling About Society
One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, I Remember, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end, nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths about French society during the 1940s and '50s. Taking Perec's book as its cue, Telling About Society explores the unconventional ways we communicate what…
Les ficelles du métier
S'appuyant sur une longue expérience de chercheur et d'enseignant, Becker propose dans ce livre des façons de penser la réalité sociale pour la saisir et l'étudier. Loin d'enfermer le lecteur dans un moule, Becker montre à travers des cas précis comment réfléchir aux diverses étapes de la recherche en évaluant les conséquences des choix que nous faisons. Quelle représentation d'un phénomène social avons nous empruntée ? Comment concilier l'étude …
Tricks of the Trade
Tricks of the Trade will help students think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sound advice, students will be able to make better sense of their research and simultaneously generate fresh ideas on where to look next for new data. Becker's tricks cover four broad areas of social science: The creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data, the development of "concepts" to organ…
Antonio Candido
Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido, one of the leading men of letters in Brazil. Trained as a sociologist, Candido conceives of literature as a social project and is equally at home in textual analyses, discussions of literary theory, and sociological, anthropological, and historical argument. It would be impossible to overstate his impact on the intellectual…
What Is a Case?
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
1 Introduction, Michal M. McCall and Howard S. Becker 2 Social Interaction, Culture, and Historical Studies, John R. Hall 3 The Good News about Life History, Michal M. McCall and Judith Wittner 4 Studying Religion in the Eighties, Mary Jo Neitz 5 Why Philosophers Should Become Sociologists (and Vice Versa), Kathryn Pyne Addelson 6 Art Worlds: Developing the Interactionist Approach to Social Organization, Samuel Gilmore 7 Symbolic Interactionism i…
Art worlds
Boys in white
Social problems
Making the Grade
The other side
Papers chiefly from the Fall, 1962, issue of Social problems, with the addition of others which appeared in the same periodical before or after that date.
Outsiders; studies in the sociology of deviance
One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders is a thorough exploration of social deviance and how it can be addressed in an understanding and helpful manner. A compulsively readable and thoroughly researched exploration of social deviance and the application of what is known as labeling theory to the studies of deviance. With particular research into drug culture, Outsiders analyzes unconven…
Social thought from lore to science
Boys in white
Sociological Work
Howard S. Becker's *Sociological Work: Method and Substance* compiles revised versions of his previously published essays, offering a comprehensive overview of his distinctive approach to sociological research and writing. The book emphasizes the importance of developing a sociological perspective, grounded in observation and empirical investigation, rather than relying on pre-conceived theories. Becker explores various aspects of the craft of so…
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
1 Introduction, Michal M. McCall and Howard S. Becker 2 Social Interaction, Culture, and Historical Studies, John R. Hall 3 The Good News about Life History, Michal M. McCall and Judith Wittner 4 Studying Religion in the Eighties, Mary Jo Neitz 5 Why Philosophers Should Become Sociologists (and Vice Versa), Kathryn Pyne Addelson 6 Art Worlds: Developing the Interactionist Approach to Social Organization, Samuel Gilmore 7 Symbolic Interactionism i…
The other side
Papers chiefly from the Fall, 1962, issue of Social problems, with the addition of others which appeared in the same periodical before or after that date.
Making the Grade
What Is a Case?
Social thought from lore to science
Outsiders; studies in the sociology of deviance
One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders is a thorough exploration of social deviance and how it can be addressed in an understanding and helpful manner. A compulsively readable and thoroughly researched exploration of social deviance and the application of what is known as labeling theory to the studies of deviance. With particular research into drug culture, Outsiders analyzes unconven…
The other side
Papers chiefly from the Fall, 1962, issue of Social problems, with the addition of others which appeared in the same periodical before or after that date.
Making the Grade
Social problems
Boys in white
Art worlds
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
1 Introduction, Michal M. McCall and Howard S. Becker 2 Social Interaction, Culture, and Historical Studies, John R. Hall 3 The Good News about Life History, Michal M. McCall and Judith Wittner 4 Studying Religion in the Eighties, Mary Jo Neitz 5 Why Philosophers Should Become Sociologists (and Vice Versa), Kathryn Pyne Addelson 6 Art Worlds: Developing the Interactionist Approach to Social Organization, Samuel Gilmore 7 Symbolic Interactionism i…
What Is a Case?
Antonio Candido
Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido, one of the leading men of letters in Brazil. Trained as a sociologist, Candido conceives of literature as a social project and is equally at home in textual analyses, discussions of literary theory, and sociological, anthropological, and historical argument. It would be impossible to overstate his impact on the intellectual…
Tricks of the Trade
Tricks of the Trade will help students think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sound advice, students will be able to make better sense of their research and simultaneously generate fresh ideas on where to look next for new data. Becker's tricks cover four broad areas of social science: The creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data, the development of "concepts" to organ…
Les ficelles du métier
S'appuyant sur une longue expérience de chercheur et d'enseignant, Becker propose dans ce livre des façons de penser la réalité sociale pour la saisir et l'étudier. Loin d'enfermer le lecteur dans un moule, Becker montre à travers des cas précis comment réfléchir aux diverses étapes de la recherche en évaluant les conséquences des choix que nous faisons. Quelle représentation d'un phénomène social avons nous empruntée ? Comment concilier l'étude …
Telling About Society
One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, I Remember, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end, nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths about French society during the 1940s and '50s. Taking Perec's book as its cue, Telling About Society explores the unconventional ways we communicate what…
Art Worlds
A classic sociological examination of art as collective action, Art Worlds explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers that - along with the artist - "produces" a work of art. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition is updated with a new dialogue between Becker and eminent French sociologist Alain Pessin about the extended social system in which art is created and with a new preface in which the author…
Art Worlds, 25th Anniversary Edition
Howard S. Becker's *Art Worlds* has become a classic in the sociology of art since its original publication in 1982. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new preface by Becker, reflecting on the book's impact and the development of the field, as well as responses from prominent scholars in art and cultural sociology. *Art Worlds* analyzes the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventi…
"Do You Know…?"
Außenseiter
Außenseiter
What About Mozart? What About Murder?
Evidence
Institutions and the Person
Evidence
Oward S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher, as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quartet of sociological guidebooks: Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade, Telling About Society, and What About Mozart? What About Murder? It turns out that the master sociologist has yet one more trick up his sleeve a fifth guidebook, Evidence. Becker has for seventy years been mulling over the prob…
Sociological Work
Howard S. Becker's *Sociological Work: Method and Substance* compiles revised versions of his previously published essays, offering a comprehensive overview of his distinctive approach to sociological research and writing. The book emphasizes the importance of developing a sociological perspective, grounded in observation and empirical investigation, rather than relying on pre-conceived theories. Becker explores various aspects of the craft of so…
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