Howard+Becker

**Biography **  [|Howard S. Becker], sociologist, was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 18,1928. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degree at the [|University of Chicago]. Later, Howard also achieved his Ph.B., A.M., and Ph.D. in [|Sociology], all at the University of Chicago. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1951, he moved on to teach in Sociology Departments at [|Northwestern University], the [|University of Washington], and the [|University of California at Santa Barbara]. Even though Howard’s field was [|Sociology], most of research, writing and teaching was in other fields of [|sociology] (i.e. [|sociology of art], [|qualitative method], [|visual sociology] and [|social sciences].) Currently Howard Becker lives in San Francisco. He has published twelve books so far.  

Sociologist: Howard S. Becker

 ** Book Overview **



[|Telling About Society] by Howard Backer explore ways that we communicate in our society with others. It is one of the best-selling series of writing guides for social scientists. This book seeks and explores many ways how knowledge is sheared in our society. He also illustrate ways of sharing and interpreting through different forms of telling can present a story many ways; such as fiction, films, photographs, maps, even mathematical models. To support his point of view, Howard uses case studies and photography to sum up that every way of telling about society is perfect for some other rationale. 

WHO DOES WHAT? Social scientists always share their work with us to make it easy for us to understand how things really work and what they mean. They use people who have some ideas, such as playwrights, novelists, photographers, statisticians, cartographers, and ordinary people, to express from time to time. //Telling About Society// explores all the common grounds to all these events and how they vary depending on our ways of telling sotries.

In chapter three “Who does what?” Howard Becker says that, “representations are made in a world of cooperating makers and users. What the makers don’t do must be done by the users, if a representation is to be created and communicated more or less to the satisfaction of everyone involved” (p. 30) Author Becker was basically trying to tell the readers that something only make sense when they are compared. As example he used some charts and picture for comparisons. 

. <span style="background: #faffff; color: #00adff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are two pictures of two men standing. Picture on the left was taken on the street somewhere in Sydney and picture on the right was also taken on a street somewhere in America. If we were to look at the pictures separately, it would matter. It would just be another picture of a man standing on the street. But once we look at both pictures next to each other, now we have something to compare. We can look at the picture and say that two men, about the same age, well dressed, standing on the street – looks worried, or they were thinking something. Then we can also say that maybe because of the economy they are worried or they could just be thinking about something totally different. Howard Becker used similar analogy to compare and confirm his point of view.

**//__ List of Books __//**


 * [|Tricks of the Trade] ||  ||   ||   |||||||||||||||||| [|Outsiders] ||   ||   |||||||||||| [|Art Worlds] ||   ||   |||||||||||||||| [|Telling About Society] ||   |||||||||||||||||| [|Writing for Social Scientists] ||   ||   ||

[|Boys in White] [|Making the Grade]   || [|Paroles et musique] [|Un sociologue en liberté: Lecture d’Howard S. Becker]
 * ||  |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| [|Art From Start to Finish] [|Propos sur l’art]
 * [|L’art du terrain: Mélanges offerts à Howard S. Becker] ||  ||

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 * __Bibliography__**


 * Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School, with Blanche Geer, Everett C. Hughes and Anselm Strauss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961)
 * Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. (New York: The Free Press, 1963)
 * Making the Grade: The Academic Side of College Life with Blanche Geer and Everett C. Hughes (New York: Wiley, 1968). New edition (1995) with new introduction.
 * Sociological Work: Method and Substance. (Chicago: Adline, 1970) collected papers, including two previously unpublished: "On Methodology" and "Field Work Evidence."
 * Art Worlds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).
 * Writing for Sociologists. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).
 * Doing Things Together: Selected Papers, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1986).
 * Do You Know . . . ? The Jazz Repertoire in Action (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2009), with Robert R. Faulkner.

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