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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820017503321

Titolo

Picturing the social landscape : visual methods and the sociological imagination / / edited by Caroline Knowles and Paul Sweetman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-40183-3

1-134-40184-1

0-415-30639-6

1-280-07777-8

0-203-69452-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Classificazione

70.03

Altri autori (Persone)

KnowlesCaroline <1954->

SweetmanPaul

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Visual sociology

Visual perception

Photography in the social sciences

Video recordings - Social aspects

Social sciences - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; WORKING WITH VISIBLE EVIDENCE: AN INVITATION AND SOME PRACTICAL ADVICE; Picturing the self, identity and domesticated space; MY VISUAL DIARY; REFLECTING THE SELF; MAPPING THE SPATIAL IN SHARED HOUSEHOLD LIFE: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY?; IMAGING THE INTANGIBLE; WEDNESDAY-NIGHT BOWLING:  REFLECTIONS ON CULTURES OF A RURAL WORKING CLASS; 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

LISTENING WITH OUR EYES: PORTRAITURE AS URBAN ENCOUNTERAMSTERDAM AND CHICAGO: SEEING THE MACRO-CHARACTERISTICS OF GENTRIFICATION; THE VISUAL AND THE VERBAL: THE INTERACTION OF IMAGES AND DISCUSSION IN EXPLORING



CULTURAL CHANGE; TELLING THE STORY OF LINDA LORD THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS; AFTERWORD: PHOTOGRAPHY AS EVIDENCE, PHOTOGRAPHS AS EXPOSITION; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In this collection international 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.