Elizabeth Chaplin

Sociology and Visual Representation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Sociology and Visual Representation is concerned with still images, diagrams and the visual presentation of the written text. It provides a selective historical survey of tests whose authors have contributed to the development of the social analysis of visual representation. It focuses, especially, on those recent texts which have changed the relationship of analysis to topic by incorporating visual representation "into the analysis itself. Elizabeth Chaplin shows that photography, critical postmodernism and, above all, feminism have each played a part in blurring the distinction between art and non-art visual representations and in queestioning the assumption that the verbal does the analysing while the visual merely constitutes the object of analysis. She argues that critical alnalyses of society are powerful when both verbal and visual dimensions are consciously activated and coordinated. Chaplin urges social scientists to make more conscious use of visual representation in their analyses. More importantly, she argues that such a course offers social scientists who are women the opportunity to develop a distinct women's approach to social analysis. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780415073639
• ISBN-10: 0415073634
• Artikelnr.: 21027336

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Chaplin is a tutor/counsellor for the Open University in London and a visiting lecturer in sociology at the University of York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I The critical paradigm 1 Critical writing about visual
art 1 Introduction and early writings 2 Critical writings about visual art:
class analyses I 3 Non-critical writings about visual art: connoisseurship,
humanism 4 Critical writings about visual art: class analyses II 2 From
written, class analyses of visual art to the use of visual representation
in critique 3 Visual and verbal critique: feminism and postmodernism Part
II The empirical paradigm Introduction to Part II 4 Sociological analyses
of visual representation 5 The use of visual representation in anthropology
and sociology 6 Visual representation and new literary forms for sociology
7 A coming together