| Description |
xix, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing |
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Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Ideas -- 1. Telling about society -- 2. Representations of society as organizational products -- 3. Who does what? -- 4. The work users do -- 5. Standardization and innovation -- 6. Summarizing details -- 7. Reality aesthetics -- 8. The morality of representations -- Pt. II. Examples -- 9. Parables, ideal types, and mathematical models -- 10. Charts : thinking with drawings -- 11. Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism -- 12. Drama and multivocality : Shaw, Churchill, and Shawn -- 13. Goffman, language, and the comparative strategy -- 14. Jane Austen : the novel as social analysis -- 15. Georges Perec's experiments in social description -- 16. Italo Calvino, urbanologist |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-298) and index |
| Subject |
Sociology -- Methodology.
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Visual sociology.
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Sociology in literature.
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Arts and society.
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| LC no. |
2006103504 |
| ISBN |
9780226041254 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226041255 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780226041261 paperback alkaline paper |
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0226041263 paperback alkaline paper |
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