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Howard Becker  

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  • An American sociologist who has pursued diverse interests over a long career, Howard S. Becker (b. 1928) is a prominent advocate of qualitative research methods in a discipline increasingly given to abstraction and quantification. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Becker, Howard]

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