Howard S. Becker
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Howard Saul Becker (born April 18, 1928) is an American sociologist who has made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Before becoming a sociologist, Becker was a photographer and a piano jazz player.
Literature
- Books (selection)
- Art Worlds, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
- with Robert R. Faulkner, Do You Know...? The Jazz Repertoire in Action, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Articles (selection)
- "Photography and Sociology", Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1, 1974:3–26.
- "Art Photography in America", Journal of Communication 25 (Winter 1975), pp 74–84.
- ""Photographic strategies"", Society 14:2 (1977), pp 85-87.
- "Categories and Comparisons: How We Find Meaning in Photographs", Visual Anthropology 14:2 (1998), pp 3-10.