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Chicago, Jazz and Marijuana: Howard Becker on Outsiders
Author(s) -
Müller Thaddeus
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1002/symb.119
Subject(s) - ethnography , jazz , sociology , focus (optics) , aesthetics , social practice , content (measure theory) , media studies , epistemology , anthropology , art , visual arts , art history , philosophy , performance art , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , optics
In this article on the social production of Outsiders I will situate its making in the daily practice of the social worlds Becker was involved in. Therefore I focus on the relations, interactions and situations which were relevant for the form, content and success of Outsiders. The fragments from my email communication with Becker, the collected interviews and other publications show that Becker demystifies Outsiders. In fact my contribution here is that I use Becker to demystify the ethnographic practice of Outsiders and describe it's mundane backstage reality, which is described by Fine as “the underside” of ethnography (1993).