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Visual Research Methods Image, Society, and Representation

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ISBN-10: 1412939542

ISBN-13: 9781412939546

Edition: 2007

Authors: Gregory C. Stanczak

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Visual research is reemerging across the social sciences as a significant, underutilized resource producing unique lines of inquiry and sparking innovative pedagogies. Stanczak's edited volume crisscrosses disciplines in ways that highlights the multiple manifestations of this newer interdisciplinary trend. As such, this volume will be useful as a methodological, epistemological, and pedagogical resource across disciplines such as sociology, education, cultural studies, anthropology, American studies, communications, gender studies, and political science. The text is organized around three thematic issues: methodology, epistemological reflection, and theoretical and conceptual exploration.…    
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List price: $129.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Gregory C. Stanczak is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Williams College. He received his Ph.D. with distinction from the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California with concentrations in culture and religion. Stanczak's work over the past four years uses video methodologies, some of which has become short video reports for the Ford Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Stanczak edited the Visual Research Volume of American Behavioral Scientist and the author of a forthcoming manuscript through Rutgers University Press titled Engaged Spirituality. Currently, he is writing an essay on the use of photography for fundraising within global aid…    

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