Howard S. Becker

Person · Open Library

Born

18 Apr 1928

Died

16 Aug 2023

Works

74

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. <i>OLEX2</i>: a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program

   · 2009 · cited 31,442x

2. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment

   · 2005 · cited 21,956x

3. MobileNetV2: Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottlenecks

   · 2018 · cited 21,938x

4. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 21,272x

5. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 13,448x

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Quotes

• “Good sociology is sociological work that produces meaningful descriptions of organizations and events, valid explanations of how they come about and persist, and realistic proposals for their improvement or removal.”
• “Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.”
• “Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that ‘language’ themselves (just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs). Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way”
• “Even in the simplest societies, no two people learn quite the same cultural material; the chance encounters of daily life provide sufficient variation to ensure that. No set of cultural understandings, then, provides a perfectly applicable solution to any problem people have to solve in the course of their day, and they therefore must remake those solutions, adapt their understandings to the new situation in the light of what is different about it.”
• “Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most literal way, everything that is there and respond to it”
• “I … view deviance as the product of a transaction that takes place between some social group and one who is viewed by that group as a rule-breaker. I will be less concerned with the personal and social characteristics of deviants than with the process by which they come to be thought of as outsiders and their reactions to that judgment.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Saul

Family name

Becker

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Chicago

Place of death

San Francisco

Occupation

art theorist

Educated at

University of Chicago

Employer

University of Washington

Languages spoken

English language

Doctoral advisor

Everett Hughes

Field of work

art theory

Official website

howardsbecker.com

Image

Howard-S.-Becker-EHESS.JPG

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