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Teoretyczne i metodologiczne podstawy socjologii wizualnej
Theoretical and methodological foundations of visual sociology

Author(s): Justyna Szulich-Kałuża
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Social Theory
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: visual sociology; visual message; mimetic theory; photography; film; semiotic analysis; symbolic analysis; iconographic-iconological analysis; analysis of contents

Summary/Abstract: The article takes up problems connected with the fashionable sub-discipline of sociology – visual sociology, slowly gaining an independent status in the theoretical and methodological field. Four models of visual sociology and their characteristics are described. The problems are also shown that are connected with the notions used in the discipline. Also basic definitions, as well as the sociological, semiotic and interpretative research techniques of the visual material (photography and film) are discussed.

  • Issue Year: 34/2006
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 107-117
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish