Pamela Richards

Howard Saul Becker

An examination of the moral and emotional problems at the root of bad writing.

How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, Or Article

Writing for Social Scientists

Argues that art works are not the creation of isolated individuals but result from cooperation between different artists, suppliers of materials, art distributors, critics, and audiences, who together make up the art world.

Art Worlds

Yazımın Sosyal Organizasyonu Kuramı

Sosyal Bilimcilerin Yazma Çilesi

Refers specifically to marijuana smokers and dance band musicians.

Studies in the Sociology of Deviance

Outsiders

Selected Papers

Doing Things Together

Campus Power Struggle traces the explosive evolution of the student political movement from the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964 to armed confrontation at Cornell in 1969. From campus conflict as a microcosm of larger political struggles for self-determination, to student concern about infringements upon personal liberties, the studies in this book provide authoritative insight into unrest on American campuses. This volume represents sociology as the "big news" in its most impressive and involved style. "No.l in the series." "Contents: "Introduction - The Struggle for Power on the Campus "(Howard S. Becker). "Beyond Berkeley "(Joseph Gusfleld). "Columbia: The Dynamics of a Student Revolution "(Ellen Kay Tnmberger). "The Crisis at San Francisco State "(James McEvoy and Abraham Miller). "Confrontation at Cornell "(William H. Fried/and and Harry Edwards'). "The Phantom Racist "(Rita James Simon and James Carey). "Dynamic Young Fogies-Rebels on the Right "(Lawrence F. Schiff). "Ending Campus Drug Incidents "(Howard S. Becker). "The Psychiatrist as Double Agent "(Thomas Szasz). "Student Power in Action "(Arlie Hochschild)."

Campus Power Struggle

The papers in this volume, including two important and previously unpublished essays on sociological method, represent most of Howard Beckers work of the past twenty years that has not appeared in book form. They reflect the way of thinking about society and how to study it that has established Professor Beckers place among the leading sociologists of our time. Th e result is an important statement of the distinctive theoretical and methodological views associated with the "Chicago School" of sociology, reflecting a deep concern with the study at first hand of the processes and human consequences of collective action and interaction. The first part of the book treats problems of method as problems of social interaction and lists a series of research problems, which require analytic attention-gaining access to research sites, choosing a theoretical framework within which to approach a group or community, avoiding error, and developing hypotheses. They also exemplify this approach by analyzing the interactional aspects of definition, proof with qualitative evidence, bias, and the value commitments of sociology. Part Two illustrates Professor Beckers approach through full reports on two of his major research projects. Part Th ree contains four theoretical statements on how people change (a sociological approach to what psychologists call "personality"), and Part Four makes important contributions to the study of deviance. The papers here ask what we can learn about American society from looking at its common forms of deviance and illustrate the need to study deviance as part of the general study of society, not as an isolated specialty.

Sociological Work

The transition from young layman aspiring to be a physician to the young physician skilled in technique and confident in his dealings with patients is slow and halting. To study medicine is generally rated one of the major educational ordeals of American youth. The difficulty of this process and how medical students feel about their training, their doctor-teachers, and the profession they are entering is the target of this study. Now regarded as a classic, Boys in White is of vital interest to medical educators and sociologists. By daily interviews and observations in classes, wards, laboratories, and operating theaters, the team of sociologists who carried out this firsthand research have not only captured the worries, cynicism, and basic idealism of medical studentsâthey have also documented many other realities of medical education in relation to society. With some sixty tables and illustrations, the book is a major experiment in analyzing and presenting qualitative data.

Howard Saul Becker

About

Books

Join the club