Becker, Howard Saul,  1928- <br/><br/>
Telling about society / 
Howard S. Becker. 
 - London :  University of Chicago Press,  2007. 
 - xix, 313 pages : illustrations  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliography and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226041254 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226041255 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226041261 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226041263 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006103504 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sociology--Methodology.<br/>Visual sociology.<br/>Sociology in literature.<br/>Arts and society.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM 511  / .B43 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301.01