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Visual sociology aims to provide analytical spaces for investigating imagerelations and to provide benchmarks for deeper insights into the significance of visuality/visualicity socially, politically, and culturally. By their very nature, images challenge authoritative interpretations since elements one overlooks may be noted by another.
5 sty 2021 · In the introduction we define our starting points regarding the relationality and performance of the image. We reflect on the changing nature of the visual in the era of social media and outline the range of visual sociology, while briefly discussing the theoretical...
1 gru 2019 · Taking stock of a century of image theories and placing contemporary visual culture in a larger socio-historical context, it lays the theoretical groundwork for this book’s exploration of how words combine with images to constitute personal, national and cultural identities in a range of media.
11 maj 2020 · The debate over realism and constructivism is long-standing and it is suggested here that Simmel’s sociology of the visual, though seldom referred to, is a powerful means of linking social theory to exploration of the ambivalence of the image.
5 sty 2021 · In this chapter we review a selection of methods, practical issues and techniques, which have been used by visual sociologists. By foregrounding traditional methods, pioneered by a prolific generation of visual sociologists and visual culture theorists we build with,...
Evidence illuminates the function of visual imagery in a wide range of social cognitive processes including attribution, impression formation, memory, emotion, mental simulation, persuasion, communication, and judgment and decision making.
5 gru 2014 · This chapter discusses sociocultural and biological pathways of identity development through the lens of cultural neuroscience, elucidating how dynamic culture-biology interactions shape the development of social identity in majority and minority group members and the etiology underlying adaptive social development in people living in ...
