Visual methods in social research

by Banks, Marcus

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Title Statements

Full title :Visual methods in social research / Marcus Banks.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):SAGE
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 201 pages : : illustrations)

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oclc:on1349301430
LC Classification:HM500
Dewey Decimal:301

Machine generated contents note: 1 Reading pictures -- 1.1 The trouble with pictures -- 1.2 An introductory example -- 1.3 Unnatural vision -- 1.4 Reading narratives -- 2 Encountering the visual -- 2.1 On television -- 2.2 Visual forms produced I: representations of society -- 2.2.1 Interpreting Forest of Bliss -- 2.2.2 Still and moving images -- 2.3 Visual forms produced II: representations of knowledge -- 2.3.1 Diagrams of Nuer lineages -- 2.3.2 Diagrams of Indian caste -- 2.4 Visual forms encountered -- 2.4.1 Encountering indigenous media -- 2.4.2 The image as evidence -- 2.5 'Us' and 'them'? -- 3 Material vision -- 3.1 Object and representation -- 3.2 The materiality of visual forms -- 3.2.1 Displaying family photographs -- 3.3 Exchanged goods -- 3.3.1 Market exchange -- 3.4 Size matters -- 3.5 Transformations: digitization and computer-based media -- 3.5.1 Digital manipulation -- 3.5.2 Digital pornography: constraining the virtual -- 3.5.3 Digital pornography: exchange and circulation -- 4 Research strategies -- 4.1 Silk thread to plastic bags -- 4.2 Researching image use and production in social contexts -- 4.3 Watching television -- 4.3.1 Soap opera in India and Egypt -- 4.…