Telling About Society

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Telling About Society
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9780226041261
ISBN-13 : 0226041263
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Book Synopsis Telling About Society by : Howard S. Becker

Book excerpt: Explores the unconventional ways we communicate what we know about society to others. Becker explores the many ways knowledge about society can be shared and interpreted through different forms of telling—fiction, films, photographs, maps, even mathematical models—many of which remain outside the boundaries of conventional social science. Eight case studies, including the photographs of Walker Evans, the plays of George Bernard Shaw, the novels of Jane Austen and Italo Calvino, and the sociology of Erving Goffman, provide support for Becker’s argument: that every way of telling about society is perfect—for some purpose. The trick is, as Becker notes, to discover what purpose is served by doing it this way rather than that. From publisher description.


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