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==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
; Books (selection) | ; Books (selection) | ||
| + | * ''Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance'', New York: The Free Press, 1963. | ||
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10715 ''Art Worlds''], Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982, 1984; 25th Anniversary Edition, updated and expanded, 2008 [http://anonfiles.com/file/d5f6a56d52ac19d767fff842bdd75308|PDF]. | * [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10715 ''Art Worlds''], Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982, 1984; 25th Anniversary Edition, updated and expanded, 2008 [http://anonfiles.com/file/d5f6a56d52ac19d767fff842bdd75308|PDF]. | ||
* with Michal M. McCall (ed.), [[Media:Howard_S._Becker,_Michal_M._McCall_Symbolic_Interaction_and_Cultural_Studies_1990.pdf|''Symbolic interaction and cultural studies'']], The University of Chicago Press, 1990. | * with Michal M. McCall (ed.), [[Media:Howard_S._Becker,_Michal_M._McCall_Symbolic_Interaction_and_Cultural_Studies_1990.pdf|''Symbolic interaction and cultural studies'']], The University of Chicago Press, 1990. | ||
Revision as of 16:06, 10 November 2014
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)
- Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York: The Free Press, 1963.
- Art Worlds, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982, 1984; 25th Anniversary Edition, updated and expanded, 2008 [1].
- with Michal M. McCall (ed.), Symbolic interaction and cultural studies, The University of Chicago Press, 1990.
- 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.
- "Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of context", Visual Studies, 10: 1 (1995):5-14
- "Categories and Comparisons: How We Find Meaning in Photographs", Visual Anthropology 14:2 (1998), pp 3-10.
