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Writing for Social Scientists How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Third Edition)

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226643939, ISBN: HB: 9780226683638, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones

For 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 is stressful, and even accomplished scholar...

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Evidence

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226466378, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

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 quartet of sociological guidebooks: "Writing for Social Scientists", "Tricks of the Trade", "Telling About Society...

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Becoming a Marihuana User

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226332901, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
88 pp., 15.2x10 cm, 6 halftones

OG 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 musician, expert on "deviant" culture, and founding NORM...

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What About Mozart? What About Murder? Reasoning From Cases

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226166490, ISBN: HB: 9780226166353, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

In 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 understood as a function of labeling. At the end...

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Telling About Society

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041261, ISBN: HB: 9780226041254, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 15 line drawings

"I Remember", one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs – each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analy...

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Tricks of the Trade How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041247, University of Chicago Press, January 1998
239 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 1 halftone, 5 tables

Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned".Tricks of the Trade" will help students learn how to think about research p...

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