Sociology and Visual Representation [Paperback]

With technological developments transforming our culture into a more visual one, this book sets a new standard for visual sociology. In this, Chaplin examines still images, diagrams and the visual representation of the written text.`Elizabeth Chaplin's book should be a real stimulus to sociologists to engage further with these and other issues within visual sociology.' I SociologyWith technological developments transforming our culture into a more visual one, this book sets a new standard for visual sociology. In this, Chaplin examines still images, diagrams and the visual representation of the written text.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 togetherElizabeth Chaplin is a tutor/counsellor for the Open University in London and a visiting lecturer in sociology at the University of York.US? 1994 Elizabeth Chaplin