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Telling about society /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Becker, Howard Saul, 1928-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Series:Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.
Subjects:
Sociology > Methodology.
Visual sociology.
Sociology in literature.
Arts and society.
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-- .