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Telling about society
Author
Title
Telling about society / Howard S. Becker.
ISBN
9780226041254 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226041255 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226041261 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226041263 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xix, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 28, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [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
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