TY  - BOOK
AU  - Becker,Howard Saul
TI  - Telling about society
SN  - 9780226041254 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HM 511 .B43 2007
U1  - 301.01 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Visual sociology
KW  - Sociology in literature
KW  - Arts and society
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2006103504-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006103504.html
ER  -