Episode 4 - Frameworks (of Visual Methods)

The fourth episode of the series is by far the most theoretical, and perhaps challenging to newcomers. It surveys five methodological frameworks for visual research methods. The viewer should keep in mind that there are others, too! Those featured in the video are listed below in their order of appearance.

Wagner, Jon. (1979). Images of Information: Still Photography in the Social Sciences. Sage Publications.

Harper, D. (1988). Visual Sociology: Expanding Sociological Vision. The American Sociologist, 19(1), 54–70.

Grady, J. (1996). The Scope of Visual Sociology. Visual Sociology, 11(2), 10–24.

Weber, S. (2008). Visual Images in Research. In Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples, and Issues (pp. 42-54). SAGE Publications, Inc.

Pauwels, L. (2015). Reframing Visual Social Science: Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press.


00:00—There's No Consensus on Visual Research Methods
00:15—Jon Wanger's Landmark Chapter on Photographs in Social Inquiry
00:47—Douglas Harper's Vision of "Visual Sociology" (Two Domains)
01:06—John Grady's "The Scope of Visual Sociology"
01:33—Sandra Weber's "Visual Images in the Research Process"
02:01—Luc Pauwel's "Visual Images and Research Processes"
02:33—The Five Frameworks Side-by-Side