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Visual sociology: Expanding sociological vision
The American Sociologist, 1988This article is an overview of the contributions of photography to sociology and a discussion of potential uses of photography in sociological research. Visual sociology, after contributing to several studies in the early decades of American sociology, disappeared to reemerge during the 1960s.
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Visual sociology and sociological vision, revisited
The American Sociologist, 1996Visual sociology has two main interests: picture-making by researchers (or their subjects) in the course of sociological fieldwork, and pictures made by social actors in the context of everyday life. Focusing on the latter interest and based in three social aspects of images—that they are produced in general societal settings and specific institutional
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Contrasting images, complementary trajectories: sociology, visual sociology and visual research
Visual Studies, 2002Recent books by Jon Prosser (Image-based Research 1998) and by Michael Emmison and Philip Smith (Researching the Visual 2000) recommend increased research attention to the visual dimensions of culture and social life, but their contrasting perspectives raise questions about how research of this sort can be pursued most productively: as a strand or ...
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Visual Sociology, 1996
Currently, visual sociology is defined as a sub‐field of qualitative sociology. This paper argues that such a view is too narrow and that the field is actually composed of three distinct, yet logically related, areas of investigation. The first is Seeing, or the study of role of sight and vision in the construction of social organization and meaning ...
John Grady
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Currently, visual sociology is defined as a sub‐field of qualitative sociology. This paper argues that such a view is too narrow and that the field is actually composed of three distinct, yet logically related, areas of investigation. The first is Seeing, or the study of role of sight and vision in the construction of social organization and meaning ...
John Grady
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2020
This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we live in, exploring three ...
Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
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This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we live in, exploring three ...
Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
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2010
As the keywords of present day methodology seem to be triangulation, multi-method perspective, and connection between qualitative and quantitative approaches, visual sociology offers opportunities that were hitherto unfeasible. Visual sociology today offers the possibility of developing discourses different from the traditional ones.
Roberto Cipriani, Emanuela C. Del Re
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As the keywords of present day methodology seem to be triangulation, multi-method perspective, and connection between qualitative and quantitative approaches, visual sociology offers opportunities that were hitherto unfeasible. Visual sociology today offers the possibility of developing discourses different from the traditional ones.
Roberto Cipriani, Emanuela C. Del Re
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A portrait of Italian visual sociology∗
Visual Sociology, 1995Part one is a brief history of Italian Visual Sociology. Andrea Pitasi sketches his main hypothesis: as a complex middle range theory, visual sociology might become a specific discipline. The theoretical concepts and proposals to create it are summarized in the conclusion.
PITASI, Andrea, Faccioli Patrizia
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Methodologies of Visual Sociology
2020In this chapter we review a selection of methods, practical issues and techniques, which have been used by visual sociologists. By foregrounding traditional methods, pioneered by a prolific generation of visual sociologists and visual culture theorists we build with, and importantly from, these ideas to form the basis of a visual sociology cognizant of
Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
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