Becker, Howard Saul  (1928-2023) <br/><br/>
Telling about society  [Texte imprimé] / 
Howard S. Becker 
 - Chicago ;  London :  University of Chicago Press,  2007 
 - 1 vol. (XIX- 313 p.) ;  23 cm 
 - Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing .
 - Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago) .
<br/><br/>Bibliogr.  p. [289]-298 
<br/><br/>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-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-0-226-04126-1 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Sociology--Methodology Visual sociology Sociology in literature Arts and society 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301.01