Overview :I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs-each just a few short lines recalli... Read More
Overview :Howard S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher, as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quar... Read More
Overview :One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders is a thorough exploration of social dev... Read More
Overview :This groundbreaking study of transitions and control in the California prison system has been extensively read, cited, and quoted in unpubli... Read More
Overview : Why is formal religious membership plummeting in numbers?Why are we missing something important about God's Testimony to us?Why does the Ap... Read More
Overview :Symbolic interactionism, resolutely empirical in practice, shares theoretical concerns with cultural studies and humanistic discourse. Recog... Read More
Overview :One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the 20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders revolutionized the study of social deviance... Read More
Overview :This unusual analysis of the San Francisco way of life combines articles by ten leading social scientists with a unique 32-page photo essay ... Read More
Overview :This classic sociological examination of art as collective action explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critic... Read More
Overview :Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to... Read More
Overview :When is an artistic work finished? When the copyeditor makes the final correction to a manuscript, when the composer writes the last note of... Read More
Overview :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 ba... Read More
Overview :Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures--most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to ... Read More
Overview :Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many v... Read More
Overview :For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to publishe... Read More