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Howard S. Becker

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in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

April 18, 1928

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August 16, 2023

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Howard Saul Becker was an American sociologist who taught at Northwestern University.

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	Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article by Howard S. Becker, Pamela Richards (Contribution by) 4.06 avg rating — 1,426 ratings — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance 3.97 avg rating — 1,344 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It 4.06 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Art Worlds 3.87 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 1982 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming a Marihuana User (Reprint Series in Sociology) 3.53 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1953 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Telling About Society 4.24 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases 3.95 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evidence 4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School by Howard S. Becker, Blanche Geer, Everett C. Hughes 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Como fumar marihuana y tener un buen viaje 3.55 avg rating — 31 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All social groups groups make rules and attempt, at some times and under some circumstances, to enforce them. Social rules define situations and the kinds of behavior appropriate to them, specifying some actions as "right" and forbidding others as "wrong".”
― Howard S. Becker, Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance

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“Outlines can help, but not if you begin with them. If you begin, instead, by writing down everything, by spewing out your ideas as fast as you can type, you will discover the answer to the first question: the fragments you have to work with are the various things you have just written.”
― Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article

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“None of these classy locutions mean anything different from the simpler ones they replace. They work ceremonially, not semantically. Writing in a classy way to sound smart means writing to sound like, maybe even be, a certain kind of person. Sociologists, and other scholars, do that because they think (or hope) that being the right kind of person will persuade others to accept what they say as a persuasive social science argument.”
― Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article

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