Telling about society

by Becker, Howard Saul

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Title Statements

Full title :Telling about society / Howard S. Becker.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2007.

The Physical Object

Description:xix, 313 pages

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226041254, 0226041255, 9780226041261, 0226041263
oclc:ocn228781611
LC Classification:HM511
Dewey Decimal:301.01

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.

Subjects

Arts -- Aspect social Arts and society Arts et société connaissance -- étude de cas. -- transm… connaissance -- transmission Étude de cas Littérature et société Sociologie -- Méthodologie Sociologie dans la littérature Sociologie visuelle Sociology -- Methodology Sociology in literature Visual sociology