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What About Mozart? What About Murder? (Paperback)
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What About Mozart? What About Murder? (Paperback)
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Loot Price R546
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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 of his
lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the
room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, What
about murder? Isn't that really deviant? It sounded like Becker had
been backed into a corner. Becker, however, wasn't defeated
Reasonable people, he countered, differ over whether certain
killings are murder or justified homicide, and these differences
vary depending on what kinds of people did the killing. In What
about Mozart, What about Murder?, Becker uses this example, along
with many others, to demonstrate the different ways to study
society, one that uses carefully investigated, specific cases and
another that relies on speculation and on what he calls killer
questions, aimed at taking down an opponent by citing invented
cases.
Becker draws on a lifetime of sociological research and wisdom to
show, in helpful detail, how to use a variety of kinds of cases to
build sociological knowledge. With his trademark conversational
flair and informal, personal perspective Becker provides a guide
that researchers can use to produce general sociological knowledge
through case studies. He champions research that has enough data to
go beyond guesswork and urges researchers to avoid what he calls
skeleton cases, which use fictional stories that pose as scientific
evidence. Using his long career as a backdrop, Becker delivers a
winning book that will surely change the way scholars in many
fields approach their research.
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