The Scope of Visual Sociology

Grady, John

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“…The idea of a distinct visual sociology -the use of visual data in sociological research (e.g., Banks, 2001;Chaplin, 1994;Grady 1996Grady , 2001Rose, 2007;Wagner 2002; for an overview, see Bolton, Pole, & Mizen, 2001;Pauwels, 2010) -became prominent through Becker's (e.g., 1974Becker's (e.g., , 1998 photographic analyses of society, and gained considerable momentum over the past two decades. Such development has been primarily facilitated by a renewed interest in culture within the social sciences, as well as by the effects and impact modern information and communication technologies have had on society.…”

Section: Anthropology and Sociologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Visual Dimension in Organizing, Organization, and Organization Research: Core Ideas, Current Developments, and Promising Avenues

Meyer

Höllerer

Jancsary

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(2013) The visual dimension in organizing, organization, and organization research: Core ideas, current developments, and promising avenues. Academy of Management Annals, 7 (1). pp. 489-555. ISSN 1941-6520 This version is available at: http://epub.wu.ac.at/4991/ Available in ePub WU : April 2016 ePub WU , the institutional repository of the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, is provided by the University Library and the IT-Services. The aim is to enable open access to the scholarly output of the WU.This document is the version accepted for publication and -in case of peer review -incorporates referee comments. There are minor differences between this and the publisher version which could however affect a citation. Abstract. With the unprecedented rise in the use of visuals, and its undeniable omnipresence in organizational contexts, as well as in the individual's everyday life, organization and management science has recently started to pay closer attention to the to date under-theorized 'visual mode' of discourse and meaning construction. Building primarily on insights from the phenomenological tradition in organization theory and from social semiotics, this article sets out to consolidate previous scholarly efforts and to sketch a fertile future research agenda. After briefly exploring the workings of visuals, we introduce the methodological and theoretical 'roots' of visual studies in a number of disciplines that have a long-standing tradition of incorporating the visual. We then continue by extensively reviewing work in the field of organization and management studies: More specifically, we present five distinct approaches to feature visuals in research designs and to include the visual dimension in scholarly inquiry. Subsequently, we outline, in some detail, promising avenues for future research, and close with a reflection on the impact of visualization on scientific practice itself.

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Section: Anthropology and Sociologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Visual Dimension in Organizing, Organization, and Organization Research: Core Ideas, Current Developments, and Promising Avenues

Meyer

Höllerer

Jancsary

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“…Pink argues explicitly that advocates of a "realist" approach to image-based field work-she refers here to work by Collier (1967), Grady (1996), Mead (1995), Prosser (1998), and Prosser and Schwartz (1998)-are limited in their appreciation of visual materials. To Pink's way of thinking, those who use photography and video recording solely to "collect data" overlook the value of visual ambiguity, a value better realized in the more "reflexive" work of Banks (1998), Barndt (1997), Chaplin (1994), and Thomas (1997).…”

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Does image‐based field work have more to gain from extending or from rejecting scientific realism? An essay in review

Wagner

2001

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“…(1998,11) In the closely related sub-disciplines of visual anthropology and visual sociology there is a pre-versus post-modernist dispute regarding not only the uses of images, but also the objective scientific status of the Reviews 185 disciplines themselves. Douglas Harper, commenting on Howard S. Becker (1974), John Grady (1996) and other seminal pieces in the establishment of the field of visual sociology, extends the vision of the field, taking into account postmodern and other critiques; but at base he argues:…”

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“…Pink's book seemed to offer both (especially Chapters 2, 3, 5 and 6). I supplemented the text with some of the standard sociological views of visual methods, including, in particular, Douglas Harper (1998), John Grady (1996), Jon Prosser (1996) and Prosser and Schwartz (1998). I wanted my students to know that these are contentious issues within the field, and they might find one perspective or the other more in line with their own thinking.…”

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The Scope of Visual Sociology

Cited by 63 publications

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The Visual Dimension in Organizing, Organization, and Organization Research: Core Ideas, Current Developments, and Promising Avenues

The Visual Dimension in Organizing, Organization, and Organization Research: Core Ideas, Current Developments, and Promising Avenues

Does image‐based field work have more to gain from extending or from rejecting scientific realism? An essay in review

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