Howard S. Becker Quotes

None Of These Classy Locutions Mean Anything Different From The Simpler Ones They Replace. They Work Ceremonially, Not Semantically. Writing In A Classy Way To Sound Smart Means Writing To Sound Like, Maybe Even Be, A Certain Kind Of Person. Sociologists, And Other Scholars, Do That Because They Think (or Hope) That Being The Right Kind Of Person Will Persuade Others To Accept What They Say As A Persuasive Social Science Argument.

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