# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-s-becker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:36:28.575Z

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name: "Howard S. Becker"
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description: "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."
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deathDate: "2023-08-16"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump