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Becker, Howard Saul, 1928-

Telling about society / Howard S. Becker. - London : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xix, 313 pages : illustrations 22 cm.

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.

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

LCCN: 2006103504

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology--Methodology.
Visual sociology.
Sociology in literature.
Arts and society.

LC Class. No.: HM 511 / .B43 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 301.01