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Outsiders by Howard S. Becker 9781982106225
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the 20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders revolutionized the study of social deviance.Howard S. Becker's Outsiders broke new ground in the early... -
Evidence by Howard S. Becker 9780226466378
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.99Howard S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quartet of sociological guidebooks: Writing for Social... -
Boys in White Howard S. Becker 9780878556229
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.29The 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... -
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies Howard S. Becker 9780226041186
Booksplease Price: £30.43Symbolic interactionism, resolutely empirical in practice, shares theoretical concerns with cultural studies and humanistic discourse. Recognizing that the humanities have engaged many of the... -
Sociological Work: Method and Substance Howard S. Becker 9780878556304
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Howard S. Becker is a leading contemporary sociologist who interprets society as collective action and sociology, therefore, as the study of collective action. This volume explores the theory and... -
The Sociology of Howard S. Becker: Theory with a Wide Horizon by Alain Pessin
Booksplease Price: £24.80Howard S. Becker is a name to conjure with on two continents in the United States and in France. He has enjoyed renown in France for his work in sociology, which in the United States goes back more... -
Howard S. Becker: Sociology and Music in the Chicago School Jean Peneff 9781629583150
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Who is Howard S. Becker? This book traces his career, examining his work and contributions to the field of sociology. Themes covered include Becker's theoretical conceptualizations, approaches,... -
The Sociology of Howard S. Becker: Theory with a Wide Horizon by Alain Pessin 9780226362717
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Howard S. Becker is a name to conjure with on two continents in the United States and in France. He has enjoyed renown in France for his work in sociology, which in the United States goes back more... -
Do You Know...?: The Jazz Repertoire in Action (16pt Large Print Edition) by Howard S Becker 9780369370877
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369370877Author Howard S BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint -
Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, with a Chapter by Pamela Richards by Howard S Becker
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.30For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic... -
Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing) (16pt Large Print Edition) by Howard S Becker and Pamela Richards 9780369308054
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369308054Author Howard S Becker and Pamela RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Co -
Strategies of Control by Sheldon L Messinger 9781610273527
RRP: £32.24Booksplease Price: £26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610273527Author Howard S BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint -
Art Worlds, 25th Anniversary Edition by Howard Saul Becker
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.51This classic sociological examination of art as collective action explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers who - along with the artist - "produce" a... -
Campus Power Struggle by Katherine L. Morrison
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Campus 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... -
Telling About Society by Howard Saul Becker
Booksplease Price: £16.75One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, "I Remember", consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a... -
What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning from Cases by Howard Saul Becker
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better... -
What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning from Cases by Howard Saul Becker 9780226166490
Booksplease Price: £16.75In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better... -
Telling About Society by Howard Saul Becker 9780226041254
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.55One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, "I Remember", consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a... -
Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations by Howard Saul Becker
Booksplease Price: £91.92When is an artistic work finished? When the copyeditor makes the final correction to a manuscript, when the composer writes the last note of a symphony, or when the painter puts the last brushstroke... -
Becoming a Marihuana User by Howard Saul Becker
Booksplease Price: £10.50OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a long way since its seedy days in the back parking lots of our culture. So has Howard S. Becker, the eminent sociologist, jazz... -
Making the Grade: The Academic Side of College Life by Blanche Geer
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare... -
Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing it by Howard Saul Becker
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £12.99Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research;... -
Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art by Jeffrey A. Halley 9789004445642
Booksplease Price: £54.75In Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art, Jeffrey A. Halley and Daglind E. Sonolet offer to English-speaking audiences an account of the very lively Francophone debates over... -
Pathways to Data: Craft and Methods for Studying Social Organizations by Robert W. Habenstein
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63"It is much better," observed C. Wright Mills in an essay on intellectual craftsmanship, "to have one account by a working student of how he is going about his work than a dozen 'codifications of... -
Hollywood Studio Musicians: Their Work and Careers in the Recording Industry Robert R. Faulkner 9781412852531
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63When originally published in 1971, Hollywood Studio Musicians was the first detailed analysis of the work and careers of production personnel in an industry devoted to mass culture. Previously, most... -
Deviance and Social Control by Mary McIntosh
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Originally published in 1974, Deviance and Social Control represents a collection of original papers first heard at the annual meeting of the British Sociological Association in 1971. They reveal how... -
Sociology of Music: History, Theory, Methodology and Practice Leon Stefanija 9783031617553
Booksplease Price: £48.51The textbook provides students with insight into and overview of the basics of social research on music. It addresses the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How of music research through four perspectives... -
Drugs and Politics by Paul E. Rock
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This collection examines the ambiguous relationship be-tween the politically mute, average drug user and the small number, socially distant from the common user, who started the work of undermining... -
Making Sense of America: Sociological Analyses and Essays by Herbert J. Gans 9780847690411
Booksplease Price: £61.62For four decades, Herbert J. Gans has been one of the leading sociologists in the United States. His writing on American communities, culture, and ethnicity have been widely read here and elsewhere,... -
Betrayals: The Unpredictability of Human Relations by Gabriella Turnaturi
Booksplease Price: £28.55From Iago to Fredo, Judas to General Hospital, acts of betrayal fascinate us. Eventually we all encounter this universal experience of human interaction, but despite its ubiquity, being betrayed can... -
Analysing Practical and Professional Texts: A Naturalistic Approach by Rod Watson 9781138276963
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Analysing Practical and Professional Texts focuses on texts as constituents of human usage, showing how written documents and other 'texts' are integral to social organization. It reveals social... -
Creating Deviance: An Interactionist Approach by Daniel L. Dotter 9780759105041
Booksplease Price: £61.04Creating Deviance is a basic text introductory text for deviance studies. Dotter identifies the convergences between social deviance, the interactionist tradition, and the construction of cultural... -
Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner City Violence by 9780813546155
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £21.64With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on... -
Chicago Sociology by Jean-Michel Chapoulie
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.60Known for its pioneering studies of urban life, immigration, and criminality using the "city as laboratory," the so-called Chicago school of sociology has been a dominant presence in American social... -
The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation by Antoine Hennion
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages, sheets, performers, scenes, media and so on. There is no musical object 'in itself'; music must always be made again. In this innovative... -
The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York Jonathan R. Wynn 9780226919065
Booksplease Price: £27.62Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where... -
Surviving Dictatorship: A Work of Visual Sociology by Jacqueline Adams
Booksplease Price: £64.29Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of... -
Chicago Sociology by Jean-Michel Chapoulie 9780231182508
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £118.80Known for its pioneering studies of urban life, immigration, and criminality using the "city as laboratory," the so-called Chicago school of sociology has been a dominant presence in American social... -
Institutions and the Person: Festschrift in Honor of Everett C.Hughes by Howard Saul Becker
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Everett C. Hughes had a great impact on the field of sociology as a whole and on an entire generation of sociologists. Some of Hughes' former students and colleagues honor him in this book. The... -
Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles Andrew Deener 9780226140018
Booksplease Price: £31.37Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of...