Here and There

HERE AND THERE
A Collection of Writings
HOWARD S. BECKER
For Fred Turner and to the memory of Doug Mitchell
Huckleberry Finn
Table of Contents
PART ONE: CHICAGO
The New Yorker and Me 2

Learning to Observe in Chicago, 19
Everybody Winked, 40
Black Metropolis, 68
Chicago 1950—Another Look, 70
Robert Park’s Ideas, 89
Northwestern, 90
PART TWO: ELSEWHERE
Kansas City, 120

How I Learned a Few “Foreign” Languages, 133
Foi por Acaso: Conceptualizing Coincidence, 153
Gilberto’s Desk, 172
The San Francisco Art Institute and Photography, 177
References 194
The New Yorker and Me
Chicago Tribune The New Yorker
Chicago Tribune
Roughing It
2
Europe and Elsewhere,

Life on the Mississippi.
Chicago Tribune
3
The New Yorker.
Chicago
4
Tribune
The New Yorker Time
Life
5
The New
Yorker
Patriotic Gore
The New Yorker
6
Black Metropolis
The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker,
Annals of the Former

World
7
The New Yorker
Art Worlds
The New Yorker
The New Yorker
8
Art Worlds The

New Yorker
Emotion and
Meaning in Music
learned
9
shared understanding
convention.
The
New Yorker
The New Yorker

Art Worlds.
10
must
must read
New Yorker,
The New Yorker
11
cadence
12
bar
mitzvas
13
“Do You Know? The Jazz Repertoire in Action
14
Evidence
has
15
go out
The New Yorker
New Yorker
New
Yorker
16
Samaritaine
The New Yorker
habitué
Art Worlds
The New Yorker’s
was
The New Yorker
17
The New York

Times
The New Yorker
18
Learning to Observe in Chicago
19
The City and Downtown
The El.
20
21
22
23
24
25
High School
26
27
The University of Chicago
28
29
30
31
Black Metropolis
32
The Music Business
33
not
if
34
35
Black Metropolis
36
Black Metropolis
37
something
together
together
wrote it all down.
38
39
Everybody Winked
A transcript of a taped conversation recorded in 1998 between

Dianne Hagaman (my wife) and me, about my experiences playing
the piano professionally in Chicago in the late 1940s and early ’50s.
Dianne in italics.
40
Everybody Winked
41
Everybody Winked
42
Everybody Winked
What kind of neighborhood was it?
Did they have residence hotels and that sort of thing?
The Gold Coast And The Slum
43
Everybody Winked
What Provoked Candy René?
44
Everybody Winked
Would you play during his act?
What provoked Candy René?
45
Everybody Winked
46
Everybody Winked
47
Everybody Winked
This Dumb Little Neighborhood Bar
48
Everybody Winked
49
Everybody Winked
so
50
Everybody Winked
And he’d still be able to play?
drunk
didn’t
And what would happen when he got the first drink?
51
Everybody Winked
I remember you told me Billy used to give reading lists to … who

was it?
52
Everybody Winked
dreck
53
Everybody Winked
great
54
Everybody Winked
55
Everybody Winked
I Believe You Joe
56
Everybody Winked
What was he singing before?
57
Everybody Winked
Junkie, you mean heroin?
The Fantastic
Lodge.
58
Everybody Winked
59
Everybody Winked
momser
60
Everybody Winked
very
he
61
Everybody Winked
You were in this bar listening to this lady.
Do You Know What A Rhumba Shirt Looks Like?
Now we should eat dinner, yeah. Howie, first tell me, who was the
guy who made the suits for the big bands?
that
You could tell me some other time.
62
Everybody Winked
Wouldn’t have black musicians?
mixed
63
Everybody Winked
Sort of like the Beatles had in the 60’s?
I’ll be damned.
64
Everybody Winked
65
Everybody Winked
the
66
Everybody Winked
Was there a real Jimmy Dale?
Let’s stop and have dinner.
67
Black Metropolis
Black Metropolis
68
Black Metropolis
Chicago Defender
Black Metropolis
69
Chicago 1950 — Another Look: The 2014 Erving
Goffman Memorial Lecture (Edinburgh University)
[A transcription of the lecture I gave on November 27, 2014, as part

of the annual day devoted to Erving Goffman at the University of
Edinburgh, commemorating Goffman’s connection there when he
was doing the research in the Shetland Islands that produced
. In this lecture I remi-
nisced about the time when Goffman and I were students together
in the University of Chicago Sociology Department.]
70
Chicago 1950 — Another Look
71
72
schools of thought schools of activity
didn’t
did
73
American Journal of Sociology
74
75
76
77
bar mitzvah
78
79
80
did
81
82
83
this
84
know
85
86
were
87
88
Robert Park’s Ideas
89
Northwestern
Northwestern and the Music Business
90
Northwestern
Ray Mack and a Long Courtship
91
Northwestern
92
Northwestern
93
Northwestern
94
Northwestern
was
again
95
Northwestern
96
Northwestern
Triquarterly,
The Culture of Sociology at Northwestern
97
Northwestern
98
Northwestern
that
99
Northwestern
100
Northwestern
101
Northwestern
The American Sociolo-

gist
Reducing Intra-department Disagreement
102
Northwestern
103
Northwestern
104
Northwestern
Field Work
105
Northwestern
106
Northwestern
107
Northwestern
Street Corner Society

Black Metropolis
doing research
108
Northwestern
has
not
109
Northwestern
Making
the Grade
Social Psychology with Don Campbell
110
Northwestern
111
Northwestern
Two Big Changes
112
Northwestern
113
Northwestern
114
Northwestern
Storyspace,
afternoon
Exploring Society Photographically
115
Northwestern
Exploring Society
Photographically
Balinese Character
116
Northwestern
117
Northwestern
118
Kansas City
A transcript of a conversation with Dianne Hagaman (my wife) and

me recorded in 1998. Dianne in italics.
Another Era
So, when did you…?
And that was where Jack E. Leonard was too?
120
Kansas City
121
Kansas City
That was in the fifties, right?
Were these older people then or were they …
You moved there in the mid ’50’s?
122
Kansas City
Why did she have a trio coming?
123
Kansas City
What about Jimmy Tucker?
124
Kansas City
It’s a Terrible Name for a Really Nice Instrument
not
125
Kansas City
126
Kansas City
127
Kansas City
Unheard of in Chicago?
Jazz bands?
You don’t remember.
128
Kansas City
Was that legal then?
He was there when you were there
129
Kansas City
She Could Cure Him in Like Two Minutes
No relation to Jimmy Tucker?
130
Kansas City
131
Kansas City
132
How I Learned a Few “Foreign” Languages
133
How I Learned a Few "Foreign" Languages
Brazil
Outsiders
bossa novas
134
did
bossa nova
135
carioca Carioca
Paulista
carioca
Museu Nacional
136
ditadura
Censura
escolas da samba
Carnival
137
Tristes Tropiques
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
did
jeito
jeito
138
jeito Jeito
ditadura
A pesar
de voce
really really
was double entendres
139
Cuatro Esperas
everything
The Great Wall of China Waiting for the
Barbarians
Le rivage du Syrte Le désert des Tartares
only
The Count of Monte Cristo

Lord Jim Victory
140
malandro
could
France
141
Art Worlds
had
Le Marché De La Peinture En France
did
142
Cen-
tre nationale de recherche scientifique
143
Le triangle du XIVe: des

nouveaux habitants dans un vieux quartier de Paris
Outsiders
Asylums
Outsiders
laboratoires
Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention So-

ciologiques
144
Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn
colloques
145
maintenant
146
why
147
ev-
eryone
champ monde
148
utopias
everyone
149
Out-
siders Entretiens Franklin
all
150
too
Afterthoughts
151
their
somebody’s
152
Foi por Acaso: Conceptualizing Coincidence
Outsiders
153
154
155
156
The Phenomenology of Coincidence
157
158
“Chance” and Chance
Hidden causes
Psychology
Multiple Endpoints and the Cost of “Close.”
159
The Law of Truly Large Numbers
had
not
Determinisms and Causes
160
161
162
why necessary
how possible
163
Process and Contingency
It
It
It
164
jig-jig
165
Intercontingency
166
stares at the
167
intercontingency
168
Details
169
170
Footnote: “Foi por acaso” is a Brazilian expression meaning,

roughly, “it happened by chance.” It is pronounced, in Portuguese,
“foy por ah-KA-zoo.”
171
Gilberto’s Desk
Written for a memorial event after Gilberto’s death
172
Gilberto's Desk
173
Gilberto's Desk
Novos Estudos
174
Gilberto's Desk
acaso
artimanhas do acaso
Tricks of the Trade
I was there!
175
Gilberto's Desk
176
The San Francisco Art Institute and Photography
Madonna del Lume
177
178
179
180
181
Rolling Stone
182
183
world
184
he he
185
186
not
Expo-
sure
Balinese Character
187
188
189
190
Doing Things Together
Seattle Times
191
How I Learned Not to Be A Photojournalist
Doing Things Together,
Charisma and Community: A Study of Religious Commitment

Within the Charismatic Renewal
192
193
References
Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at 100
One boy’s day; a specimen record of behavior.
Balinese Character: A Photographic

Analysis.
American Sociologist
Outsiders
Art Worlds
Doing Things Together: Selected Papers
What about Mozart What about Murder: Reasoning From Cases
Evidence
Making the Grade: The Academic Side of College Life
Novos Estudo
Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society
La Tradition Sociologique De Chicago 1892–1961
Hank: the life of Charles Bukowski
Tulsa
The American Journal of Sociology
Journal of the American Statistical Association
194
References
What is Sociology?
James Joyce
Do You Know. . .? The Jazz Reper-

toire in Action
Biography: A Game
Symbolic Interaction
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The New Yorker
High and Low: Modern Art and Popular

Culture
Getting a Job
Framing and Being Framed: 7 Works 1970–75
How I Learned not to be a Photojournalist
Everybody Winked
Kansas City
Prints and Visual Communication
Triste Tropiques
Annals of the Former World
Emotion and Meaning in Music
Sociological Forum
Le marché de la peinture en France
195
References
Charisma and Community: A Study of Religious Commitment

within the Charismatic Renewal
La reverie anarchiste 1848–1914
L’imaginaire utopique aujourd’hui
Un socioloque en liberté
The Sociology of Howard S. Becker: Theory with a Wide Hori-
zon
Anuário
Antropológico/89
Le goût de l’observation
Amer-
ican Journal of Sociology
Ameri-
can Sociological Review
Poetic Inquiry
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life

in a Northern City
The Marginal Man: a Study in Personality and Culture

Conflict
Explanation and Understanding
Patriotic Gore
Street Corner Society
196
www.howardsbecker.com
AOC
La goût de l'observation
Everybody Winked
AOC
Sociological Quarterly
Anuário Antropolôgico
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HERE AND THERE

PART ONE: CHICAGO

The New Yorker and Me 2

PART TWO: ELSEWHERE

Kansas City, 120

Chicago Tribune The New Yorker

Europe and Elsewhere,

The New Yorker.

The New Yorker Time

The New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker,

Annals of the Former

The New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Art Worlds The

The New Yorker

The New Yorker

“Do You Know? The Jazz Repertoire in Action

The New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker’s

The New Yorker

The New York

The New Yorker

The City and Downtown

The University of Chicago

The Music Business

wrote it all down.

A transcript of a taped conversation recorded in 1998 between

What kind of neighborhood was it?

Did they have residence hotels and that sort of thing?

The Gold Coast And The Slum

What Provoked Candy René?

Would you play during his act?

What provoked Candy René?

This Dumb Little Neighborhood Bar

And he’d still be able to play?

And what would happen when he got the first drink?

I remember you told me Billy used to give reading lists to … who

I Believe You Joe

What was he singing before?

Junkie, you mean heroin?

You were in this bar listening to this lady.

Do You Know What A Rhumba Shirt Looks Like?

You could tell me some other time.

Wouldn’t have black musicians?

Sort of like the Beatles had in the 60’s?

Was there a real Jimmy Dale?

Let’s stop and have dinner.

[A transcription of the lecture I gave on November 27, 2014, as part

schools of thought schools of activity

American Journal of Sociology

American Journal of Sociology

American Journal of Sociology

Northwestern and the Music Business

Ray Mack and a Long Courtship

The Culture of Sociology at Northwestern

The American Sociolo-

Reducing Intra-department Disagreement

Street Corner Society

Social Psychology with Don Campbell