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Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition
For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful …
Tricks of the Trade
Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to …
The Jack-Roller
A deliquent's account of his experiences and values illuminates the nature and treatment of juvenile delinquency
What About Mozart? What About Murder?
In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, …
Telling About Society
I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perec s most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work …
Becoming a Marihuana User
OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a long way since its seedy days in the back parking lots of our culture. So has Howard S. Becker, the eminent …
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
Symbolic interactionism, resolutely empirical in practice, shares theoretical concerns with cultural studies and humanistic discourse. Recognizing that the humanities have engaged …
Tricks of the Trade
Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. …
"Do You Know...?"
Every night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together. Whether the gig is at a jazz club, a bar, or a bar mitzvah, the performance never begins …
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
Symbolic interactionism, resolutely empirical in practice, shares theoretical concerns with cultural studies and humanistic discourse. Recognizing that the humanities have engaged …
Art from Start to Finish
When is an artistic work finished? When the copyeditor makes the final correction to a manuscript, when the composer writes the last note of a symphony, or when the painter puts …