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The sociology of Howard S. Becker : theory with a wide horizon / Alain Pessin ; translated by Steven Rendall with a foreword by William Kornblum and contributions by Howard S. Becker.
LIBRA HM588 .P4713 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pessin, Alain, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Sociologue en liberté. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Becker, Howard S. (Howard Saul), 1928-2023.
- Becker, Howard S.
- Sociology--Philosophy.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 133 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Howard S. Becker has enjoyed renown in France for his work in sociology, which in the United States goes back more than fifty years to include pathbreaking studies of deviance, professions, and sociology of the arts, as well as a steady stream of books and articles on method. French fame has brought French analysis, including The Sociology of Howard S. Becker, written by Alain Pessin and translated into English by Steven Rendall. The book is an exploration of Becker's major works as expressions of the freedom of possibility within a world of collaborators. Pessin reads Becker's work as descriptions and ideas that show how society can embody the possibilities of change, of doing things differently of taking advantage of opportunities for free action. The book is itself a kind of collaboration-Pessin and Becker in dialogue. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- People who get high and the others
- Jazzmen and company
- Culture in motion
- A sociological perspective
- What is there to see, what is there to say?
- A researcher set free
- Introduction to the appendixes / Howard S. Becker
- Appendix A: a dialogue on the ideas of "world" and "field" / Howard S. Becker and Alain Pessin
- Appendix B: a tribute to Alain Pessin / Howard S. Becker
- Appendix C: four things I learned from Alain Pessin / Howard S. Becker.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780226362717
- 022636271X
- 9780226362854
- 022636285X
- OCLC:
- 957223210
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