Visual Techniques Applied in Social Research

The book illustrates the relevance of visual data in social research. It highlights the multitude and variety of research contexts where the visual can be applied. It provides useful examples to those who want to use visual techniques in their social research.

The book addresses current methodological issues related to the use of visual data in research and to the relevance of the visual techniques for enhancing social knowledge. It illustrates the variety of social topics that can be visually dealt with. The themes that are covered in the book are not only methodological, but also refer to worthy aspects related to community change, identity, perceptions and representations, and emotions. As it is a book on the use of the visual in research, each of the ideas and each of the results presented here is exemplified in images. This makes the volume very easy to follow and understand. It provides useful examples to those who want to use visual techniques in their social research.

Autorentext

Florentina Scârneci-Domni oru is an associate professor at Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, in the Social Sciences and Communication Department and has a PhD in sociology. Her research and teaching focus on qualitative methods, identity and visual sociology.

Inhalt

visual research visual data visual sociology drawings photographies respondent-generated imagery social change volunteers adolescent identity post-retirement identity transformations representations of God perceptions of the marital partner moral emotions