Telling about society
Representations of society as organizational products
Who does what?
The work users do
Standardization and innovation
Summarizing details
Reality aesthetics
The morality of representations
Parables, ideal types, and mathematical models
Charts : thinking with drawings
Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism
Drama and multivocality : Shaw, Churchill, and Shawn
Goffman, language, and the comparative strategy
Jane Austen : the novel as social analysis
Georges Perec's experiments in social description
Italo Calvino, urbanologist
Finally
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Telling about society by Howard Saul Becker. ISBN 9780226041261. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
