Researching the Visual : Images, Objects, Contexts and Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry

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Pub. Date: 2000-05-15
Publisher(s): Sage Publications Ltd
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'The book has a solid practical feel to it, and although it deals philosophically with leading theorists such as Foucault, Goffman, Bourdieu and Hall it grounds the practice of visual research into everyday use... Weaved cleverly throughout are numerous practical exercises which draw together the theoretical concepts and give them a grounded rational element. This book is a valuable research tool and I would anticipate that many researchers will find it a worthwhile addition to their armoury' - Mental Health Care'This is a very useful book indeed for students; and a welcome reminder to academics about observational methods made unfashionable by ethics committees and critical ethnography' - Qualitative Research'It is one of the best available textbooks on visual research methodology, particularly for those who are interested in anthropology and theoretical sociology' - A K Sinha, Sociological BulletinProviding a comprehensive introduction to the entire field of visual research, this book reviews the contributions of traditions as diverse as semiotics, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and material culture studies and demonstrates their potential application for the visual researcher.The first part of the book deals with the more traditional themes in visual research. These center on the use of photographic images in ethnographic enquiry and the cultural interpretation of texts such as advertisements. It then goes on to show how visual research should also embrace the analysis of everyday objects, places and forms of social interactions. Accessibly presented yet methodologically rigorous and theoretically grounded, the relevance of leading theorists such as Foucault, Bourdieu, Goffman and Hall are discussed.The book includes numerous exercises which show students how 'low-tech, low-budget' visual research can provide methodologically sophisticated ways of testing and developing cultural theory. The book is generously illustrated with images, and diagrams that serve to bring the various theoretical points into focus.

Table of Contents

List of exercises and projects
vi
Preface viii
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction: putting visual data into focus
1(20)
Current trends in visual research: a conceptual review
21(36)
Two-dimensional visual data: images, signs and representations
57(50)
Three-dimensional visual data: settings, objects and traces
107(45)
Lived visual data: the built environment and its uses
152(38)
Living forms of visual data: bodies, identities and interaction
190(41)
References 231(8)
Index 239

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