Jay Lemke vs. Howard S. Becker
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Jay Lemke
1946 – present
Jay Lemke is an American semiotician and science education scholar with a background in physics. He is professor of education at the University of Michigan.
"A genre is maintained by the conventions of a community, and in most cases serves specific functions within the system of practices of particular institutions o…"
Howard S. Becker
1928 – 2023
Howard Saul Becker was an American sociologist who taught at Northwestern University. Becker made contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Becker also wrote extensively on sociological writing styles and methodologies. Becker's 1963 book Outsiders provided the foundations for labeling theory. Becker was often called a symbolic interactionist or social constructionist, although he did not align himself with either method. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Becker was considered part of the second Chicago School of Sociology, which also includes Erving Goffman and Anselm Strauss.
"That accounts for a truly crazy cycle in which students repeat the worst stylistic excesses the journals contain, learn that those very excesses are what makes …"
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