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In 2004, Un sociologue en liberté: Lecture d'Howard S. Becker by French sociologist Alain Pessin was released in France. [13] In the book, Pessin examines Becker's work and contributions to the field of sociology. [13] Howard S. Becker died in San Francisco on August 16, 2023, at the age of 95. [14] [1]
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Howard P. Becker (1899–1960), American sociologist Howard S. Becker (1928–2023), American sociologist Howard D. Becker (1914–1995), American painter and watercolorist
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His mother married again, to Becker's brother Paul. His father Charles Becker later married twice more. He was prosecuted in New York for the 1912 murder of a gambler, found guilty, and executed in 1915. Howard P. Becker was brought up by his mother and stepfather in Reno and Winnemucca, Nevada, where he attended local
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Their son, Howard P. Becker, was born in 1899. Six years later the couple divorced, and Howard grew up with his mother and stepfather in the West. His mother married Charles's brother Paul. Howard Becker completed a doctorate in sociology at the University of Chicago and later became a full professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Becker himself claimed that: "In The Denial of Death I argued that man's innate and all-encompassing fear of death drives him to attempt to transcend death through culturally standardized hero systems and symbols." [5] A premise of The Denial of Death is that human civilization is a defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality. In ...