Visual Sociology

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This new version of the authoritative textbook in the field of visual sociology focuses on the key topics of documentary photography, visual ethnography, collaborative visual research, visual empiricism, the study of the visual symbol and teaching sociology visually. This updated and expanded edition includes nearly twice as many images and incorporates new in-depth case studies, drawing upon the author’s lifetime of pioneering research and teaching as well as the often neglected experiences of women and people of color.

The book examines how documentary photography can be useful to sociologists, both because of the topics examined by documentarians and as an example of how seeing is socially constructed. Harper describes the exclusion of women through much of the history of documentary photography and the distinctiveness of the female eye in recent documentary, a phenomenon he calls "the gendered lens". The author examines how a visual approach allows sociologists to study conventional topics differently, while offering new perspectives, topics and insights. For example, photography shows us how perspective itself affects what we see and know, how abstractions such as "ideal types" can be represented visually, how social change can be studied visually and how the study of symbols can lead us to interpret public art, architecture and person-made landscapes. There is an extended study of how images can lead to cooperative research and learning; how images can serve as bridges of understanding, blurring the lines between researcher and researched. The important topic of reflexivity is examined by close study of Harper’s own research experiences. Finally, the author focusses on teaching, offering templates for full courses, assignments and projects, and guides for teachers imagining how to approach visual sociology as a new practice.

This definitive yet accessible textbook will be indispensable to teachers, researchers and professionals with an interest in visual sociology, research methods, cultural theory and visual anthropology.

https://www.routledge.com/9781032171098

Author(s): Douglas Harper
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 328
City: London

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preface to the Second Edition
Notes
1 Documentary Photography and Visual Sociology
Introduction
Early History
P.H. Emerson
Jacob Riis
The 1930s
John Heartfield
Bill Brandt
FSA
Documentary in the 1950s and 1960s
The War in Vietnam
Social Movements
Bruce Jackson
The Once and Present Future of Documentary
The Gendered Lens
Contemporary Women Documentarians
Susan Meiselas
LaToya Ruby Frazier
In Conclusion
Notes
2 Visual Ethnography
Overview
Balinese Character
Post-Balinese Character
Rail Tramps and Homelessness
Reflexivity in Context
Modern Examples of Reflexive Visual Ethnography
Righteous Dopefiend
Sidewalk
Studying Arapaho Reservation Life
Recent Visual Ethnography
Examples From the Journal Visual Ethnography
Photo Essays and Self-Contained Visual Ethnographies
Filmic Sociology and Visual Ethnography
Summary
Notes
3 Visual Research Collaboration
Overview
Photo Elicitation
Willie’s Working Knowledge
Studying Farmers
Photo Elicitation Research With Archives
Photo Elicitation in Cross-Cultural Research
Who Should Take the Photos?
Summary
Photovoice: Introduction
New Participatory Methods
Doing PhotoVoice: A Conversation Between Karijn Kakebeeke and Douglas Harper
Project 1: Malawi
Project 2: Holland, Point of View
Postscript
Conclusion [Harper]
Notes
4 Visual Facts
Overview
Comparing Farm Systems Visually
Visual Triangulation
Why Aerial Photos? Why Photos at All?
Comparing Housing Interiors
Comparing Neighborhoods
The Visual Study of Social Life in a City
Piazza Maggiore: Studying a City Center
Into the Piazza
Change
Further Visual Studies of Social Change
Interpreting the Subjective
Seeing and Recording Sight
Summary
Notes
5 Visual Symbols
The Photo, Punctum and Studium
Overview
Signifier, Signified, Sign and Smoking in LIFE
Do Italians See Fascism in Roman Buildings and Art?
Signs and Myths in Urban Public Art
Five Themes in the Study of Public Art
Case Studies in Public Art
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
George Washington/Guyasuta: Whitewash in Bronze
Remembering Those Who Die Homeless On the Streets of Edmonton
Summary
Notes
6 Teaching Visually
Overview and Contexts
Learning to Read Photos
How Does the Camera Affect the Message
Ethics
Courses On Visual Sociology: Starting at the Present, Looking Back
Where It Began
Adding a Visual Dimension to Conventional Courses
Workshops
Lectures
Assignments: the Taken for Granted
Urban Spaces
Semiotics
Social Organization
Teaching Collaborative Methods
Literacy Through Photography
Self-portraiture Without Self
Teaching Theory With Feature Films
Using Feature Films as Texts
Filming Sociology: Teaching Sociology By Teaching How to Make Films
The Golden Nugget
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index