BECKER, HOWARD S.

Art Worlds.

University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1984. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. This 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 work of art. Howard S. Becker looks at the conventions essential to this operation and, prospectively, at the extent to which art is shaped by this collective activity. Includes an Index. Art Worlds is Becker's magnum opus, a brilliant exposition of his institutional approach to the sociology of art. . . . This is a marvelously rich and insightful book. - Contemporary Sociology
¶ 392 pages.

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Book number: 69962X1

Catalogue: SOCIOLOGY

Keywords: (Art World, Aesthetics, Howard S. Becker, Cyntia White, Stereography, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Raymonde Moulin, Innovation, Audience). 0520052188

BECKER, HOWARD S.

Les mondes de l'art. Présentation de Pierre-Michel Menger. Traduit de l'anglais par Jeanne Bouniort.

Paris, Flammarion, 1988. Paperback. 380 pp.: ill.; 24 cm. Text in French. Very good. ISBN: 9782080128010. Gewicht/Weight: 840 grs.

-- Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers

Book number: 32613

BECKER, HOWARD S. WITH A CHAPTER BY RICHARDS, PAMELA.

Writing For Social Scientists: How To Start And Finish Your Thesis, Book, Or Article.

University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London: 1986. Softcover. Good condition. Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures: most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them: often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer's block. Sociologist Howard S. Becker has written the classic book on how to conquer these pressures and simply write. First published nearly twenty years ago, Writing for Social Scientists has become a lifesaver for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. Becker's message is clear: in order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat. It is not always an easy process, as Becker wryly relates. Decades of teaching, researching, and writing have given him plenty of material, and Becker neatly exposes the foibles of academia and its publish or perish atmosphere. Wordiness, the passive voice, inserting a the way in which when a simple how will do: all these mechanisms are a part of the social structure of academic writing. By shrugging off such impediments: or at the very least, putting them aside for a few hours: we can reform our work habits and start writing lucidly without worrying about grades, peer approval, or the literature. In this new edition, Becker takes account of major changes in the computer tools available to writers today, and also substantially expands his analysis of how academic institutions create problems for them. As competition in academia grows increasingly heated, Writing for Social Scientists will provide solace to a new generation of frazzled, would-be writers. Includes an Index.
¶ 208 pages.

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Book number: 54013X2

Catalogue: WRITING

Keywords: (Howard S. Becker, Social Scientists, Reference Books, Pamela Richards, Writing, Authorship, Sociology, Term Papers, Editing, Scholarly Literature).

BECKER, HOWARD S. WITH A CHAPTER BY RICHARDS, PAMELA.

Writing For Social Scientists: How To Start And Finish Your Thesis, Book, Or Article.

University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London: 1986. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures: most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them: often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer's block. Sociologist Howard S. Becker has written the classic book on how to conquer these pressures and simply write. First published nearly twenty years ago, Writing for Social Scientists has become a lifesaver for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. Becker's message is clear: in order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat. It is not always an easy process, as Becker wryly relates. Decades of teaching, researching, and writing have given him plenty of material, and Becker neatly exposes the foibles of academia and its publish or perish atmosphere. Wordiness, the passive voice, inserting a the way in which when a simple how will do: all these mechanisms are a part of the social structure of academic writing. By shrugging off such impediments: or at the very least, putting them aside for a few hours: we can reform our work habits and start writing lucidly without worrying about grades, peer approval, or the literature. In this new edition, Becker takes account of major changes in the computer tools available to writers today, and also substantially expands his analysis of how academic institutions create problems for them. As competition in academia grows increasingly heated, Writing for Social Scientists will provide solace to a new generation of frazzled, would-be writers. Includes an Index.
¶ 208 pages.

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Book number: 70594X1

Catalogue: WRITING

Keywords: (Howard S. Becker, Social Scientists, Reference Books, Pamela Richards, Writing, Authorship, Sociology, Term Papers, Editing, Scholarly Literature).

BARNES, HARRY ELMER & BECKER, HOWARD S.

Historia del pensamiento social. Historia e interpretaciòn de las ideas acerca de la convivencia humana

Fondo de Cultura Economica USA, 1990. Paperback. Pp: 877. ISBN: 9789681614881. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Book number: U1717691

Catalogue: Talen div

Keywords: 9789681614881

BECKER, HOWARD SAUL

Art worlds

Univ of California Pr, 2008. Paperback. Pp: 408. This 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 work of art. Howard S. Becker looks at the conventions essential to this operation and, prospectively, at the extent to which art is shaped by this collective activity. The book is thoroughly illustrated and updated with a new dialogue between Becker and eminent French sociologist Alain Pessin about the extended social system in which art is created, and with a new preface in which the author talks about his own process in creating this influential work. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: U1572608

Catalogue: Kunst

BECKER, HOWARD SAUL

Art worlds

Univ of California Pr, 1984. Paperback. Pp: 392. 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. ISBN: 9780520052185. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

-- Boekhandel De Slegte b.v.

Book number: U1592857

Catalogue: Kunst

Keywords: 9780520052185

BECKER, HOWARD S., ROBERT R. FAULKNER & BARBARA KISHENBLATT-GIMBLETT, EDITORS

Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 1st printing of the 1st edition, fine/ no dust jacket.

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Book number: 107238

Catalogue: Art: criticism & theory

Keywords: Music: jazz 0226040844

BECKER, HOWARD S; HUGHES, EVERETT; GEER, BLANCHE

Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School

(Chicago UP, 2nd impression, 1963) Hardback. Very good in edge-worn dustwrapper. xiv + 456pp. ISBN: B000KC0TFO

-- Naomi Symes Books

Book number: A15102

Keywords: B000KC0TFO, medical school, medicine, history, education, American medical students

BECKER,HOWARD S.

Campus Power Struggle.

, Trans-action Books/Aldine 1970, Paperback. Good used paperback
¶ Good used paperback.Cover sunned around edges.Cover rubbed.Light corner creases.Interior very good.

-- LincBook

Book number: 015012

Keywords: Education Higher education Student Power Student Unrest

BECKER, HOWARD S., ED

Culture and civility in San Francisco.

N. pl.: Transaction Books, 1971. xi, 164p. + 32p. photos, worn dj. With considerable material on Chinatown, by Stanford M. Lyman ("Red Guard on Grant Avenue"), a great deal on black- white relations, the Haight Ashbury, storefront lawyers..

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Book number: 136639

Keywords: Chinese American San Francisco African American Urban History Hippies, Sixties California

BECKER, HOWARD S. (EDITOR)

Culture and Civility in San Francisco

Transaction Books, 1971. hardcover. . Very Good/Good Plus .

-- McCauley Books

Book number: CN022831amz

Catalogue: Area Histories

BECKER, HOWARD S., ED

Culture and civility in San Francisco.

N. pl.: Transaction Books, 1971. xi, 164p. + 32p. photos, dj. With considerable material on Chinatown, by Stanford M. Lyman ("Red Guard on Grant Avenue"), a great deal on black- white relations, the Haight Ashbury, storefront lawyers..

-- Bolerium Books

Book number: 83039

Keywords: Chinese American San Francisco African American Urban History Hippies, Sixties California

ROBERT R. FAULKNER AND HOWARD S. BECKER

"Do You Know... ?": The Jazz Repertoire in Action

University Of Chicago Press, 2009. Hardcover. Pristine. New and perfect . New .

-- Barner Books

Book number: 400725

Keywords: General Aas Nonfiction Social Sciences Sociology Books Entertainment Music Musical Genres Jazz

BECKER, HOWARD & REUBEN HILL ( EDITED BY )

"Family, Marriage and Parenthood, Second Edition

, . "D.C> Heath, 1955. ( hb no dj, x-lib w/usual markings,cover very well worn with reinforcement tape on spine, o/w in good cond. )

-- The Book Nook

Book number: 56050

Catalogue: Sociology

BECKER, HOWARD ; GEER, BLANCHE [EDS]

Institutions and the Person. Papers Presented to Everett C Hughes.

Chicago: Aldine 1968. . 372p grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine, ex-lib first edition, pages clean with frontispiece, footnotes, list of contributors and bibliography of Hughes works, VG.

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Book number: PAQ84169

Catalogue: Sociology

BECKER, HOWARD S. / GEER, BLANCHE / RIESMAN, DAVID / WEISS, ROBERT S. (EDITORS)

Institutions and the Person: Essays Presented to Everett C. Hughes

Chicago, Aldine Publishing Company. 1968, First Edition. Cloth with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, Good/Good.

-- Delectus Books

Book number: 019832

Catalogue: Social History, Politics & Sociology

Keywords: Money Business Finance Economics Investment Stocks Currency Banking John Maynard Keynes Social History Politics Commerce Capitalism Monetrism Insurance Stock Exchange Demography Demographics Population British Economy Great Depression General Strike Wall

BECKER, JAMES M. AND MEHLINGER, HOWARD D. EDITED BY

International Dimensions in the Social Studies

Washington, D.C. National Council for the Social Studies. 1968, 38th Yearbook. Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The publication of this yearbook is most timely. The uncertainties of a condition of peace by terror, the unequal development of newly independent nations, shifting power structures among the nations, our involvement in a major war in Asia, and civil unrest within our own nation all we have comew within the forcus of worldopinion and concern. Nr. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 027660

Keywords: Social Studies

BECKER, HOWARD SAUL:

Die Kunst des professionellen Schreibens : ein Leitfaden für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Aus dem Engl. von Hanne Herkommer, Reihe Campus ; Bd. 1085 : Studium

Frankfurt/Main ; New York : Campus-Verl., 1994. Deutsche Ausgabe 223 S. ; 19 cm Kl.-8°, Softcover/Paperback guter Zustand

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Book number: 246007

Catalogue: Kultur

BECKER, HOWARD SAUL:

Die Kunst des professionellen Schreibens ein Leitfaden für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften Reihe Campus ; Bd. 1085 : Studium

Frankfurt/Main ; New York : Campus-Verl., 1994. Aus dem Engl. von Hanne Herkommer, Literaturverz. S. 219 - 223, Erstauflage, EA, 223 S., 19 cm EA kart. Kartoniert, guter Zustand

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Book number: 187589

Catalogue: Varia

Keywords: Textproduktion ; Wissenschaftliches Manuskript

BECKER, HOWARD AND ALVIN BOSKOFF, [EDITORES]

Modern Sociological Theory in continuity and change

New York: The Dryden Press, cop. 1957.- XIII,756 p.; 4º (24 cm.); Tela Ed..- Con varias páginas subrayadas con lapiz rojo aunque es facilmente borrable, por lo demás en muy buen estado.* Book in english (Hardcover)

-- Librería Miguel Miranda, AILA/ILAB

Book number: 25126

BECKER, HOWARD AND BOSKOFF, ALVIN, EDS.

Modern Sociological Theory In Continuity And Change

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Light brown textured cloth, black label panel with gilt ruled borders and gilt lettering on spine. 756 pages including index. Ex-Hartford Seminary Library; otherwise unmarked, clean, tight, copy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good .

-- Frenchboro Books

Book number: 31916

BECKER, HOWARD & BOSKOFF, ALVIN - EDITOR

Modern Sociological Theory: In Continuity and Change

The Dryden Press, 1957. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket, front hinge weakened with netting visible, some corner edge wear, small stain on front cover, stamp on page ridges, text clean, binding still mostly tight. 1957 Hard Cover. 756 pp. CONTENTS: Part 1 - Introduction; Part 2 - Major Strands in Theory and Methodology; Part 3 - Some Specializations in Modern Sociology; Part 4 - Convergences of Bordering Fields with Sociology; Part 5 - Sociological Research and Theory Abroad.

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Book number: 1517292