Research Catalog

Title

Analyzing visual data / Michael S. Ball, Gregory W.H. Smith.

Author

Ball, M. S. (Michael S.)

Publication

Newbury Park, CA : Sage Publications, c1992.

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Additional Authors

• Smith, Gregory W. H.
• Smith, Gregory W. H., 1950-

Description

vii, 77 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This volume provides a basic framework for using visual data - namely still photographs - as a tool for social analysis. The authors determine the importance of theoretical assumptions in analyzing these data and provide advice on how to use photographs in cognitive, symbolist and structuralist research.

Series Statement

Qualitative research methods ; v. 24

Uniform Title

Qualitative research methods v. 24.

Subject

• Social sciences > Research > Methodology
• Photography in the social sciences > Interpretation
• Photographs > Psychological aspects
• Anthropology, Cultural > methods
• Symbolism
• Visual Perception
• Photography in the social sciences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.71-76).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The use of photographs in a discipline of words -- Analyzing the content of visual representations -- Symbolist and structuralist analyses of visual representations -- The social organization of visual experience.

ISBN

• 0803934343
• 0803934351 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^92007984^

OCLC

• 25412452
• SCSB-10162456

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library