Telling about Society

Name: Telling about Society
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ISBN: 9780226041261

ISBN-10: 0226041263

ISBN-13: 9780226041261

Edition: 2007

Authors: Howard S. Becker

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"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 about French society during the 1940s and 50s. Taking Perec's book as its cue, "Telling About Society" explores the unconventional ways we communicate what we know about society to others. The third in distinguished teacher Howard Becker's best-selling series of writing guides for social scientists, the book explores the many ways knowledge about society can be shared and interpreted through…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.85" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Ideas



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



Examples



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


References


Index