Continuity and Change in Howard S. Becker's work: An Interview with Howard S. Becker

Howard S. Becker is one of the foremost sociologists of the second half of the twentieth century. Although he is perhaps best known for research on deviance and his book Outsiders, this constitutes only a very small fraction of his earliest work. This interview looks at some of the continuities and cores of his work over ?fifty years. Becker highlights how his work maintains the same core concerns, although new interests have been added over time. At the core is a concern with 'work' and 'doing things together.' Becker provides many concrete stories from the past and also raises issues about the nature of doing theory and research, how he writes and produces his studies, and the problems attached to the professionalization of sociology. His writing on art and culture can be seen as assuming a major position in his later work, but he does not identify with either postmodernism or cultural studies

Evidencia visual: Un séptimo hombre, la generalización especificada y el trabajo del lector

¿Qué tipo de pruebas nos dan las imágenes fotográficas? Una anécdota de un crítico de fotografía burlado en los años 60 explicita las dificultades de establecer “la verdad” de las fotografías. La obra clásica de John Berger y Jean Mohr, Un séptimo hombre (1974), proporciona una sólida y ejemplar evidencia textual y fotográfica sobre un fenómeno social importante: las migraciones contemporáneas de los trabajadores emigrantes del sur europeo en el industrializado norte de la misma Europa, allá por la década de los 60 y principios de los 70 del siglo pasado. Palabras clave: fotografía, evidencia visual, Jean Mohr, John Berger, trabajadores emigrantes, relación texto/imagen Abstract What kind of evidence do photographic images give us? A small story of a deceived photographic critic from the 1960s explains the difficulties of establishing "truth" of photographs. The classic work of John Berger and Jean Mohr, A Seventh Man (1974), gives solid and exemplary textual and photographic evidence about an important social phenomenon: the contemporary migrations of emigrant workers from the European south in the industrialized north in the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. Key words: Photography, visual evidence, Jean Mohr, John Berger, emigrant workers, relation text/images

Gilberto Velho. Um Antropólogo na Cidade: Ensaios de Antropologia Urbana

The premature death of Gilberto Velho is a loss for the world of social science, in Brazil and throughout the world. As always, the death of a person so important to the thinking and lives of so many of us becomes the occasion for an assessment of his work, a rethinking (now that we know there won't be any more) of what he gave us, what we have now to carry on without his help or example. Fortunately, Gilberto left us a lot. The editors, students and then colleagues of his, have made a judici..