simulo reviewed Telling About Society by Howard S. Becker
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4 stars
Like the other H.S. Becker books a good read. It shows how society can be represented in different ways and how communities of makers and users of representations work together and distribute the work (and freedom) of interpretation between each other. It gives plenty of examples: ethnographies but also novels, mathematical models, graphs, literary experiments etc. This part was interesting, however it had no arc and was more a collection (in case you are of the type who reads books linearly)