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Becker has also been the recipient of numerous awards and honors in his field.

These include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978-1979, the Charles Horton Cooley Award, awarded by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, in 1980, the Common Wealth Award in 1981, the Cooley / Mead Award in the Section on Social Psychology, awarded by the American Sociological Association in 1985, and the George Herbert Mead Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship, awarded by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in 1987.

Becker also hold honorary degrees from Université de Paris VIII, Université Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon.