Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xix, 313 p. ; ill.; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing

Subject

1. Sociology > Methodology
2. Visual sociology
3. Sociology in literature
4. Arts and society

Contents

1. 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-- .

Call number

1. JFD 07-4857

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-298) and index.

Author

1. Becker, Howard S. (Howard Saul), 1928-2023.

Title

1. Telling about society / Howard S. Becker.

Imprint

1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Series

1. Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-298) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only
2. Publisher description

LCCN

1. 2006103504

ISBN

1. 9780226041254 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0226041255 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780226041261 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0226041263 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFD 07-4857