Books written by Howard S. Becker
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Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of...
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"Do You Know...?": The Jazz Repertoire in Action
Faulkner and Becker’s vivid, detailed portrait of the musician at work holds valuable lessons for anyone who has to think on the spot or under a spotlight.
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Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
This challenging volume explores that border area.
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Making the Grade: The Academic Side of College Life
The authors of Making the Grade maintain that, though it has taken different forms from tune to time, the emphasis on grades has persisted in academic life.
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Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition
By shrugging off such impediments—or at the very least, putting them aside for a few hours—we can reform our work habits and start writing lucidly without worrying about grades, peer approval, or the “literature.” In this new ...
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Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations
This text gathers together group of contributors from the worlds of sociology, musicology, literature, and communications to discuss how artists from jazz musicians to painters work: how they coordinate their efforts, how they think, how ...
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Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
This challenging volume explores that border area.
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Art Worlds: 25th Anniversary edition, Updated and Expanded
The book is thoroughly illustrated and updated with a new dialogue between Becker and eminent French sociologist Alain Pessin about the extended social system in which art is created, and with a new preface in which the author talks about ...
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Outsiders
One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker’s Outsiders is a thorough exploration of social deviance and how it can be addressed in an understanding and helpful manner.
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Evidence
The book is filled with examples like this, and Becker uses them to expose a series of errors, suggesting ways to avoid them, or even to turn them into research topics in their own right.
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Art Worlds, 25th Anniversary Edition: 25th Anniversary edition, Updated and Expanded
25th Anniversary edition, Updated and Expanded Howard S. Becker. Even though all states have enacted penal statutes that prohibit forgery , such statutes do not deal specifically with the creation or marketing of false paintings .
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Telling About Society
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 ...
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Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start & Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article
This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect the contemporary landscape of academic writing, offering a new generation of scholars and students encouragement to write about society or any other scholarly topic clearly and ...
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Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, Or Article
''In this new edition, Becker takes account of major changes in the computer tools available to writers today, and also substantially expands his analysis of how academic institutions create problems for them.
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Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, Or Article, with a Chapter by...
And it provides a clear solution: In order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat. This is not a book about sociological writing.
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Making the Grade: The Academic Side of College Life
The authors of Making the Grade maintain that, though it has taken different forms from tune to time, the emphasis on grades has persisted in academic life.