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

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0415306396
9780415306393
041530640X
9780415306409
020369452X
9780203694527

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DDC classification:

301 22

LOC classification:

HM500 .P53 2004

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.

Summary: "We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is fast becoming key in social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, what their advantages and limitations have been and how they have worked alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas:* self and identity* visualizing domestic space* visualizing urban landscapes* visualizing social change.Methods covered include photo and video diaries, juxtaposing official and unofficial views, using images as triggers in interview work, working with children through photographs, and combining visual methods with interviews and text-based research.The result is an original and coherent work that will be indispensable for any student, academic or researcher interested in the use of visual methods."--Publisher description.

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is fast becoming key in social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, what their advantages and limitations have been and how they have worked alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas:* self and identity* visualizing domestic space* visualizing urban landscapes* visualizing social change.Methods covered include photo and video diaries, juxtaposing official and unofficial views, using images as triggers in interview work, working with children through photographs, and combining visual methods with interviews and text-based research.The result is an original and coherent work that will be indispensable for any student, academic or researcher interested in the use of visual methods."--Publisher description.

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