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Telling about society
- Title
- Telling about society / Howard S. Becker.
- Author
- Becker, Howard S. (Howard Saul), 1928-2023.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- xix, 313 p. ; ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-298) and index.
- 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-- .
- Call Number
- JFD 07-4857
- ISBN
- 9780226041254 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226041255 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226041261 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226041263 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006103504
- OCLC
- 77573180
- Author
- Becker, Howard S. (Howard Saul), 1928-2023.
- Title
- Telling about society / Howard S. Becker.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Series
- Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-298) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFD 07-4857