Telling about society / Howard S. Becker

Author:: Becker, Howard Saul, 1928-
Published:: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Physical Description:: xix, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing

Contents:

Telling about society -- Representations of society as organizational products -- Who does what? -- The work users do -- Standardization and innovation -- Summarizing details -- Reality aesthetics -- The morality of representations -- Parables, ideal types, and mathematical models -- Charts : thinking with drawings -- Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism -- Drama and multivocality : Shaw, Churchill, and Shawn -- Goffman, language, and the comparative strategy -- Jane Austen : the novel as social analysis -- Georges Perec's experiments in social description -- Italo Calvino, urbanologist -- Finally-- .

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ISBN:

9780226041254 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226041255 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226041261 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226041263 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-298) and index.

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