Telling about society / Howard S. Becker.
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TextPublication details: London : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: xix, 313 pages : illustrations 22 cmISBN: - 9780226041254 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226041255 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226041261 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226041263 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 301.01Â 22
- HM 511Â .B43 2007
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loan | Margaret Thatcher Library First Floor | HM 251 .B43 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 301461 |
Includes bibliography and index.
Pt. I. Ideas: 1. Telling about society: 2. Representations of society as organizational products -- 3, Who does what? -- 4. The work users do -- 5. Standardization and innovation -- 6. Summarizing details -- 7. Reality aesthetics -- 8. The morality of representations -- Pt. II. Examples: 9. Parables, ideal types, and mathematical models -- 10. Charts : thinking with drawings -- 11. Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism -- 12. Drama and multivocality : Shaw, Churchill, and Shawn -- 13. Goffman, language, and the comparative strategy -- 14. Jane Austen : the novel as social analysis -- 15. Georges Perec's experiments in social description -- 16. Italo Calvino, urbanologist -- Finally.
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