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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.
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'''Howard Saul Becker''' (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.
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==Works==
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* with Blanche Geer, Everett C. Hughes and Anselm Strauss, [[Media:Becker_Howard_Geer_Blanche_Hughes_Everett_Boys_in_White_Student_Culture_in_Medical_School_1992.pdf|''Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School'']], Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961; 1977; 1992.
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* [[Media:Becker_Howard_Outsiders_Studies_In_The_Sociogy_Of_Deviance_1963.pdf|''Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance'']], New York: The Free Press, 1963.
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** ''Outsiders.  Etudes de sociologie de la déviance'', Paris: Métalié, 1985 [http://socio.ens-lyon.fr/livres/livres_becker_outsiders_note.php]. {{fr}}
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** ''Outsiders: estudos de sociologia do desvio'', trans. Maria Luiza X. de A. Borges, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2009. {{pt}}
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** ''Außenseiter. Zur Soziologie abweichenden Verhaltens'', trans. Cori A. Mackrodt and Stefanie Loyal, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 2014. {{de}}
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* [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].
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** ''Los mundos del Arte'', trans. Joaquin Ibarburu, Bernal: Universidad National de Quilmes, 2008. {{es}}
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* ''Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986; 2nd edition, [https://anonfiles.com/file/75eb00c6726432fc25c57b87d3f6057d 2007].
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* with Michal M. McCall (ed.), [[Media:Becker Howard S McCall Michal M eds Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies 1990.pdf|''Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies'']], University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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* with Robert R. Faulkner, ''Do You Know...? The Jazz Repertoire in Action'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
  
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==Literature==
 
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* ''Art Worlds'', Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
 
 
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* "Photography and Sociology", ''Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1, 1974:3–26.
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* [http://traces.revues.org/257 "Notes on the Concept of Commitment"], ''The American Journal of Sociology'' 66:1 (1960), pp 32-40. {{fr}}
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* "Art Photography in America", ''Journal of Communication'', 25 (Winter, 1975):74–84.
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* "Photography and Sociology", ''Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication'' 1 (1974), pp 3-26.
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* [[Media:Howard_S._Becker_-_Art_Photography_in_America_1975.pdf|"Art Photography in America"]], ''Journal of Communication'' 25 (Winter 1975), pp 74-84.
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* [[Media:Howard_S._Becker_-_Photographic_strategies_1977.pdf|"Photographic strategies"]], ''Society'' 14:2 (1977), pp 85-87.
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* [[Media:Becker_Visual_sociology_documentary_photography_and_photojournalism_1995.pdf|"Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of context"]], ''Visual Studies'' 10:1 (1995), pp 5-14.
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* "[[Media:Howard_S._Becker_-_Categories_and_Comparisons-_How_We_Find_Meaning_in_Photographs.pdf|Categories and Comparisons: How We Find Meaning in Photographs]]", ''Visual Anthropology'' 14:2 (1998), pp 3-10.
  
 
==Links==
 
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* http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/
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* [http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/ Website]
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* http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/vita.html
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_S._Becker Wikipedia]
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Latest revision as of 14:30, 20 December 2023

Howard Saul Becker (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.

Works[edit]

Books (selection)
  • Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York: The Free Press, 1963.
    • Outsiders. Etudes de sociologie de la déviance, Paris: Métalié, 1985 [1]. (French)
    • Outsiders: estudos de sociologia do desvio, trans. Maria Luiza X. de A. Borges, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2009. (Portuguese)
    • Außenseiter. Zur Soziologie abweichenden Verhaltens, trans. Cori A. Mackrodt and Stefanie Loyal, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 2014. (German)
  • Art Worlds, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982, 1984; 25th Anniversary Edition, updated and expanded, 2008 [2].
    • Los mundos del Arte, trans. Joaquin Ibarburu, Bernal: Universidad National de Quilmes, 2008. (Spanish)
  • Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986; 2nd edition, 2007.
  • with Robert R. Faulkner, Do You Know...? The Jazz Repertoire in Action, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Articles (selection)

Links[edit]

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