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Visual sociology and sociological vision, revisited

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Visual sociology has two main interests: picture-making by researchers (or their subjects) in the course of sociological fieldwork, and pictures made by social actors in the context of everyday life. Focusing on the latter interest and based in three social aspects of images—that they are produced in general societal settings and specific institutional settings, and are a kind of discursive practice—three approaches to the sociology of visual material are illustrated.

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Caulfield, J. Visual sociology and sociological vision, revisited. Am Soc 27, 56–68 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02692040

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