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Picturing the social landscape : visual methods and the sociological imagination
- Title
- Picturing the social landscape : visual methods and the sociological imagination / edited by Caroline Knowles and Paul Sweetman.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, ©2004.
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- Description
- xi, 204 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques." "The collection showcases different methods in different contexts through the examination of a variety of topical issues. Methods covered include photo and video diaries, the use of images produced by respondents, the use of images and prompts in interviews and focus groups, documentary photography, photographic inventory and visual ethnography."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Visual sociology
- Visual perception
- Photography in the social sciences
- Video recordings > Social aspects
- Social sciences > Research
- Visual Perception
- visual perception
- 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research
- Photography in the social sciences
- Social sciences > Research
- Video recordings > Social aspects
- Visual perception
- Visual sociology
- Visuele informatie
- Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek
- Note
- Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Working with visible evidence: an invitation & some practical advice / John Grady -- Part One: Picturing the self, identity and domesticated space. My visual diary / Elizabeth Chaplin -- Reflecting the self / Ruth Holliday -- Mapping the spatial in shared household life: a missed opportunity? / Sue Heath & Elizabeth Cleaver -- Imaging the intangible / Tony Whincup -- Wednesday-night bowling: reflections on cultures of a rural working class / Douglas Harper -- Part two: picturing the city, sociality and post-industrial change. Researching and writing everyday accounts of the city: an introduction to the diary-photo diary-interview method / Alan Latham -- Listening with our eyes: portrait as urban encounter / Les Back -- Amsterdam and Chicago: seeing the macro-characteristics of gentrification / Charles Suchar -- The visual & the verbal: the interaction of images and discussion in exploring cultural change / David Byrne & Aidan Doyle -- Telling the story of Linda Lord through photographs / Ana Mmaria Maud & Alicia Rouverol, with photographs by Cedric N. Chatterley.
- ISBN
- 0415306396
- 9780415306393
- 041530640X
- 9780415306409
- 9780203694527
- 020369452X
- 9781134401840
- 1134401841
- LCCN
- 2003021054
- OCLC
- ocm53162422
- 53162422
- SCSB-8801630
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library