Image-based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers

by Prosser,Jon; Prosser,Jon

• ISBN13: 9780750707060
• ISBN10: 0750707062
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135714291
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

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. 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(6)
Part 1 A Theoretical Overview of Image-based Research	7	(106)
Chapter 1 Visual Anthropology: Image, Object and Interpretation	9	(15)
Marcus Banks
Chapter 2 An Argument for Visual Sociology	24	(18)
Douglas Harper
Chapter 3 Film-making and Ethnographic Research	42	(18)
Paul Henley
Chapter 4 `The Camera Never Lies': The Partiality of Photographic Evidence	60	(9)
Brian Winston
Chapter 5 Psychology and Photographic Theory	69	(15)
Orla Cronin
Chapter 6 Visual Sociology, Documentary Photography, and Photojournalism: It's (Almost) All a Matter of Context	84	(13)
Howard S. Becker
Chapter 7 The Status of Image-based Research	97	(16)
Jon Prosser
Part 2 Images in the Research Process	113	(82)
Chapter 8 Photographs within the Sociological Research Process	115	(16)
Jon Prosser
Dona Schwartz
Chapter 9 Remarks on Visual Competence as an Integral Part of Ethnographic Fieldwork Practice: The Visual Availability of Culture	131	(17)
Michael Ball
Chapter 10 Photocontext	148	(14)
Clem Adelman
Chapter 11 Media Convergence and Social Research: The Hathaway Project	162	(14)
Rob Walker
Ron Lewis
Chapter 12 The Application of Images in Child Abuse Investigations	176	(19)
Hollida Wakefield
Ralph Underwager
Part 3 Image-based Research in Practice	195	(112)
Chapter 13 Picture This! Class Line-ups, Vernacular Portraits and Lasting Impressions of School	197	(17)
Claudia Mitchell
Sandra Weber
Chapter 14 Interpreting Family Photography as Pictorial Communication	214	(21)
Richard Chalfen
Chapter 15 Pupils Using Photographs in School Self-evaluation	235	(17)
Michael Schratz
Ulrike Steiner-Löffler
Chapter 16 Cartoons and Teachers: Mediated Visual Images as Data	252	(11)
Terry Warburton
Chapter 17 Images and Curriculum Development in Health Education	263	(21)
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)	284	(23)
Elizabeth Chaplin
Notes on Contributors	307	(4)
Index	311