Telling about society
by Becker, Howard S., (Howard Saul)
Explores the unconventional ways we communicate what we know about society to others. Becker explores the many ways knowledge about society can be shared and interpreted through different forms of telling--fiction, films, photographs, maps, even mathematical models--many of which remain outside the boundaries of conventional social science. Eight case studies, including the photographs of Walker Evans, the plays of George Bernard Shaw, the novels of Jane Austen and Italo Calvino, and the sociol…
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- Full title :Telling about society / Howard S. Becker.
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Explores the unconventional ways we communicate what we know about society to others. Becker explores the many ways knowledge about society can be shared and interpreted through different forms of telling--fiction, films, photographs, maps, even mathematical models--many of which remain outside the boundaries of conventional social science. Eight case studies, including the photographs of Walker Evans, the plays of George Bernard Shaw, the novels of Jane Austen and Italo Calvino, and the sociology of Erving Goffman, provide support for Becker's argument: that every way of telling about society is perfect--for some purpose. The trick is, as Becker notes, to discover what purpose is served by doing it this way rather than that. From publisher description.
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- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 313 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780226125985, 022612598X
- oclc:on1202768698
- LC Classification:HM511
- Dewey Decimal:301.01
Table of 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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