Howard Saul Becker, Ph.D.
Affiliations: | 1951-1953 | Sociology | University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1953-1955 | Institute for Juvenile Research | ||
| 1965-1991 | Sociology | Northwestern University, Evanston, IL | |
| 1991-1999 | Sociology and Music | University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, WA |
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"Howard S. Becker"Bio:
Howard S. Becker is known for developing the foundations for labeling theory. Howard S. Becker has contributed to areas of the sociology of deviance as well as sociology in music and art.
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Sign in to add mentor| Everett Cherrington Hughes | grad student | 1951 | Chicago (SocTree) | |
| (Everett Hughes was the Dissertation Committee Chair.) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Elijah Anderson | grad student | Chicago (SocTree) | |
| John P Walsh | grad student | (SocTree) | |
| Lawrence J. Redlinger | grad student | 1969 | Northwestern |
| Mitchell Duneier | grad student | 1992 | Northwestern (SocTree) |
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| Becker HS. (2009) John Kitsuse: a Colleague Remembered The American Sociologist. 40: 21-24 |
| Becker HS. (2004) Comment on Kevin D. Haggerty, “Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics” Qualitative Sociology. 27: 415-416 |
| Becker HS. (2003) The Politics of Presentation: Goffman and Total Institutions Symbolic Interaction. 26: 659-669 |
| Becker HS. (2002) Visual evidence: A Seventh Man, the specified generalization, and the work of the reader Visual Studies. 17: 3-11 |
| Becker H. (2001) Georges Perec's Experiments in Social Description Ethnography. 2: 63-76 |
| Becker HS. (2000) What Should Sociology Look Like in the (Near) Future Contemporary Sociology. 29: 333 |
| Becker HS. (1995) Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of context Visual Studies. 10: 5-14 |
| Becker HS, Shepherd J. (1992) Music as Social Text. Contemporary Sociology. 21: 528 |
| Peirano MGS, Becker HS. (1992) The pluralism of Antonio candido Sociological Theory. 10: 43 |
| Velho G, Becker HS. (1992) Project, emotion, and orientation in complex societies Sociological Theory. 10: 6 |