Howard S Becker: 12 books
What About Mozart? What About Murder?
Reasoning From Cases
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing...
Tricks of the Trade
How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
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 the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students...
Writing for Social Scientists
How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer’s block.
Sociologist Howard S. Becker has...
Thinking Together
An E-Mail Exchange and All That Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Faulkner and Becker, sociologists and experienced musicians, wrote a book about their musical experiences—Do You Know? The Jazz Repertoire in Action—describing how musicians who didn’t know each other could perform competently and interestingly without rehearsing, or playing from written music....
by Howard S. Becker
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perec’s most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs—each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths...
by Howard S. Becker
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Howard S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher, as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quartet of sociological guidebooks: Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade, Telling About Society, and What About Mozart? What About Murder? It turns...
"Do You Know...?"
The Jazz Repertoire in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Every night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together. Whether the gig is at a jazz club, a bar, or a bar mitzvah, the performance never begins with a note, but with a question. The trumpet player might turn to the bassist and ask, “Do you know ‘Body and Soul’?”—and...
by Howard S. Becker
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a long way since its seedy days in the back parking lots of our culture. So has Howard S. Becker, the eminent sociologist, jazz musician, expert on “deviant” culture, and founding NORML board member. When he published Becoming a...
by Howard S. Becker
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
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.
A compulsively readable and thoroughly researched exploration of social deviance...
Making the Grade
The Academic Side of College Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has always been dominated by grades and grade point averages....
Schooling the Symbolic Animal
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies...
Institutions and the Person
Festschrift in Honor of Everett C.Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Everett C. Hughes had a great impact on the field of sociology as a whole and on an entire generation of sociologists. Some of Hughes' former students and colleagues honor him in this book. The essays address the main themes in his work over the years, and illustrate as well Hughes' impact on the...