Image-based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers / Edition 1

by Jon Prosser

Overview

Just what is a picture worth? Qualitative research is dominated by language. However, researchers have recently shown a growing interest in adopting an image-based approach. This is the first volume dedicated to exploring this approach and will prove an invaluable sourcebook for researchers in the field. The book covers a broad scope, including theory and the research process; and provides practical examples of how image-based research is applied in the field. It discusses use of images in child abuse investigation; exploring children's drawings in health education; cartoons; the media and teachers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750707060
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/23/1998
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 A Theoretical Overview of Image-Based Research; Chapter 1 Visual Anthropology: Image, Object and Interpretation, Marcus Banks; Chapter 2 An Argument for Visual Sociology, Douglas Harper; Chapter 3 Film-Making and Ethnographic Research, Paul Henley; Chapter 4 ‘The Camera never Lies’: The Partiality of Photographic Evidence, Brian Winston; Chapter 5 Psychology and Photographic Theory, Órla Cronin; Chapter 6 Visual Sociology, Documentary Photography, and Photojournalism: It’s (Almost) All a Matter of Context, Howard S. Becker; Chapter 7 The Status of Image-Based Research, Jon Prosser; Part 2 Images in the Research Process; Chapter 8 Photographs within the Sociological Research Process, Jon Prosser, Dona Schwartz; Chapter 9 Remarks on Visual Competence as an Integral Part of Ethnographic Fieldwork Practice: The Visual Availability of Culture, Michael Ball; Chapter 10 Photocontext, Clem Adelman; Chapter 11 Media Convergence and Social Research: The Hathaway Project, Rob Walker, Ron Lewis; Chapter 12 The Application of Images in Child Abuse Investigations, Hollida Wakefield, Ralph Underwager; Part 3 Image-Based Research in Practice; Chapter 13 Picture This! Class Line-Ups, Vernacular Portraits and Lasting Impressions of School, Claudia Mitchell, Sandra Weber; Chapter 14 Interpreting Family Photography as Pictorial Communication, Richard Chalfen; Chapter 15 Pupils Using Photographs in School Self-Evaluation, Michael Schratz, Ulrike Steiner-Löffler; Chapter 16 Cartoons and Teachers: Mediated Visual Images as Data, Terry Warburton; Chapter 17 Images and Curriculum Development in Health Education, Noreen M. Wetton, Jennifer McWhirter; Chapter 18 Making Meanings in Art Worlds: A Sociological Account of the Career of John Constable and His Oeuvre, with Special Reference to ‘The Cornfield’ (Homage to Howard Becker), Elizabeth Chaplin;

Editorial Reviews

Investigates the anthropological, sociological, and psychological meanings that can be teased out of such visual imagery as school portraits, family photography, paintings, ethnographic films, and political cartoons. Eighteen chapters, organized into three sections treating theory, methodology, and case studies, explore the use of images to research such issues as photographic manipulation, contextuality, digitalization, sexual abuse, and the professional identity of teachers. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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