Visual Research Methods: Image, Society, and Representation / Edition 1

by Gregory C. Stanczak

Overview

Visual Research Methods: Image, Society, and Representation translates abstract concepts into visually-compelling elements of everyday life. Differing from photographs as illustration, this edited volume synthesizes images with analytic questions about the world "out there." Editor Gregory C. Stanczak crisscrosses disciplines in ways that highlight the multiple manifestations of a new interdisciplinary trend.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412939546
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/28/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gregory C. Stanczak is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Williams College. He received his Ph.D. with distinction from the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California with concentrations in culture and religion. Stanczak’s work over the past four years uses video methodologies, some of which has become short video reports for the Ford Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Stanczak edited the Visual Research Volume of American Behavioral Scientist and the author of a forthcoming manuscript through Rutgers University Press titled Engaged Spirituality. Currently, he is writing an essay on the use of photography for fundraising within global aid organizations.

Table of Contents

Chapter 01: Introduction: Images, Methodologies, and Generating Social Knowledge - Gregory C. Stanczak
Chapter 02: Observing Culture and Social Life: Documentary Photography, Fieldwork, and Social Research - Jon Wagner
Chapter 03: All Photos Lie: Images as Data - Barry Goldstein
Chapter 04: Capturing the Visual Traces of Historical Change: The Internet Mission Photography Archive - Jon Miller
Chapter 05: Using Photography in Studies of Immigrant Communities: Reflecting across Projects and Populations - Steven J. Gold
Chapter 06: Breaking the Ethnographer’s Frames: Reflections on the Use of Photo-Elicitation in Understanding Sri Lankan Monastic Culture - Jeffrey Sammuels
Chapter 07: Inner-City Children in Sharper Focus: Sociology of Childhood and Photo-elicitation Interviews - Marisol Clark-Ibáñez
Chapter 08: The Failure of “The President’s Choice” - Erina Duganne
Chapter 09: Signs of Resistance: Marking Public Space through a Renewed Cultural Activism - Emmanuel David
Chapter 10: Filming ‘The Closet’: The Role of Video Diaries in Researching Sexualities - Ruth Holliday
Chapter 11: The Symbolism of Video: Exploring Migrant Mothers’ Experiences - Yolanda Hernandez-Albujar
Chapter 12: Website Design: Merging Hypertext Aesthetics, Academic Narratives, and Visual Sociology - Stephen Papson, Robert Goldman, Noah Kersey