Naslov
The Extended Case Method in Visual Research

Autori
Petric, Mirko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination - ESA 2015, 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2105 - Programme Book / - Prag : European Sociological Association (ESA), 2015, 301-301

ISBN
978-80-7330-271-9

Skup
Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination - ESA 2015, 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2105

Mjesto i datum
Prag, Češka Republika, 25.08.2015. - 28.08.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
visual research; sociology; extended case method

Sažetak
The last two decades have seen an unprecedented increase in the use of visual methods across the social and cultural sciences. In spite of that, as Emisson and Smith (2000 ; 2013) have reminded us, the previous marginalization and underutilization of visual information in the social sciences has resulted in “notable problems in connecting up /.../ to the central theoretical traditions and debates of social sciences”. Such problems do not appear to have subsided to the present day, notwithstanding the ever-growing profusion of literature based on “visual methods” of research. Rather than being readily associated with idoneous sociological frameworks, such as symbolic interactionism, sociological phenomenology, ethnomethodology or constructivism, the results of empirical research based on visual data frequently remain in the domain of the broadly interdisciplinary or postdisciplinary defined “visual studies” or “cultural studies”. This paper is an attempt to narrow the mentioned gap between the central sociological traditions and visual research by discussing their potential cross-fertilization with Buroway’s elaboration of the “extended case method” (1998). Following Konecki’s attempt to develop the framework for a “visual grounded theory” (2011), this paper sets out to do the same departing from Burawoy’s reflexive “theorygraphy”, in which research activities aim “to modify, exemplify, and develop existing theories” (Tavory & Timmermans, 2009). Such an approach is seen as especially fruitful in the task of placing the frequently disconnected visual data into their extralocal and sociological context. Examples included in the presentation illustrate the productivity of Buroway’s approach in the field of visual research.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

POVEZANOST RADA