Photo Elicitation and the Visual Sociology of Religion
Visual research methods - image-based techniques for collecting, analyzing, and explaining data - are not mainstream in the social scientific study of religion. Few sociologists employ them, fewer still to study religion. While mainstream qualitative and quantitative methods have much to offer, wo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
[2015]
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Review of religious research
Year: 2015, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 303-318 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Photography
/ Interview
/ Data acquisition
/ Religious sociology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethnography
B Visual sociology B Photo elicitation B Visual anthropology B Visual research methods B sociology of religion |
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| Summary: | Visual research methods - image-based techniques for collecting, analyzing, and explaining data - are not mainstream in the social scientific study of religion. Few sociologists employ them, fewer still to study religion. While mainstream qualitative and quantitative methods have much to offer, words and numbers alone may miss important dimensions of religion and spirituality in the contemporary world. This research note provides an overview of work on the most commonly used visual research technique in the sociology of religion: photo elicitation (PE). We frame our essay around four questions. What is visual sociology? What is photo elicitation? How has PE been used in the social scientific study of religion? And how else could this technique be utilized in religious research? |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-014-0199-5 |