1st Edition
Picturing the Social Landscape Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination
216 Pages
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Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. 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. Contributors explore the following ideas: * self and identity * visualizing... Read more
Introduction Working With Visible Evidence: An Invitation and Some Practical Advice Part 1: Picturing the Self, Identity and Domesticated Space 1. My Visual Diary 2. Reflecting the Self 3. Mapping the Spatial in Shared Household Life: A Missed Opportunity? 4. Imaging the Intangible 5. Wednesday-Night Bowling: Reflections on Cultures of a Rural Working Class Part 2: Picturing the City, Sociality and Post-Industrial Change 6. Researching and Writing Everyday Accounts of the City: An Introduction to the Diary-Photo Diary-Interview Method 7. Listening with our Eyes: Portrait as Urban Encounter 8. Amsterdam and Chicago: Seeing the Macro-Characteristics of Gentrification 9. The Visual & the Verbal: The Interaction of Images and Discussion in Exploring Cultural Change 10. Telling the Story of Linda Lord Through Photographs Afterword
Biography
Caroline Knowles, Paul Sweetman
