1st Edition
Creativity and Sociology Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources
Introduction
Mariano Longo, Corrado Punzi, Matteo Jacopo Zaterini
Part 1: Doing Sociology on Art: Creative Artifacts as Objects of Social Research
1. Music - "Soundscapes” and the “Acoustic Past”: Collective Memories and the Musical Composition of Space and Time
Anna Lisa Tota
2. Literature - From Aesthetics to Politics: Opening up the Sociological Dimension of Literature
Jean-François Vernay
3. Theater - Sociology of Theatre in the Age of the Uncertainty of “Glocal” and Mediatized Societies
Tomaž Toporišič
4. Comics - On the Sociology of Comics: History, Dreams, and Panoptical Thinking
Ivan Pintor Iranzo
5. Photography - Interrogating “Street Photography” as a Cultural Practice, a Visual Data Source, and a Sociological Research Strategy
Luc Pauwels
6. Cinema - Cinema as Memory: The Sociological Use of Films
Corrado Punzi
7. Videogames - The Videogame Plane: A Non-Representational Methodology of Form
Ciara Cremin
Part 2: Doing Sociology with Art: Creative Methodologies for Social Research
8. Music - Doing Music Together: Classifications of Genre, Heritage, and Canon
Timothy J. Dowd
9. Literature - Doing Social Research with Literary Narratives
Mariano Longo
10. Theatre - Theatre as a Tool for the Researcher's Work with Groups and on Oneself: Elements to Build a Theatrical Sociology
Alma Pisciotta
11. Comics - The Society Born from the Balloon: Doing Sociology with Comics
Stefano Cristante
12. Photography - Rethinking Photo-elicitation in Ethnography, Autoethnography, Creative (Art-Based) Methods, and Collaborative Methods
Luigi Gariglio
13. Cinema - Qualitative Research with Social Science Films: From Data Collection to Film Production
Katharina Miko-Schefzig
14. Videogames - The Representation of Delirium: A Link between Player and Society
Matteo Jacopo Zaterini
15. Afterword - A Dialogical Conversation on Creativity and Art in the Social Sciences: From Visual Sociology to Creative Methods
Luigi Gariglio and Douglas Harper
Biography
Mariano Longo is a professor of sociology at the University of Salento, Italy. He is the author of Emotions through Literature and Fiction and Social Reality.
Corrado Punzi is an associate professor in sociology of cultural and communicative processes at the University of Salento, Italy.
Matteo Jacopo Zaterini is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Human and Social Science at the University of Salento, Italy.
