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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | TenHave2003a |
Author(s) | Paul ten Have |
Title | Teaching students observational methods: visual studies and visual analysis |
Editor(s) | Mike Ball |
Tag(s) | EMCA, Teaching, Observation, Visual |
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Year | 2003 |
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Journal | Visual Studies |
Volume | 18 |
Number | 1 |
Pages | 29–35 |
URL | Link |
DOI | 10.1080/1472586032000100047 |
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Abstract
My experiences in teaching classes in ‘observation’ for sociology students is used to explore aspects of doing visual studies and visual analysis, using the direct or camera-aided observation of pedestrian traffic as a case in point. The students had to do some observational assignments ‘out in the streets’ and report on their experiences and findings, trying to make sociological sense of both. I fed them some ideas from Goffman in order to help them ‘see’ things in a sociological way. I also tried to unsettle their common sense sociology and methodology by confronting them with some ethnomethodological notions derived from Eric Livingston. In so doing I wanted to focus their attention on the visual methods actually used to organize pedestrian traffic ‘on the ground’, rather than restricting themselves to a structural overview ‘from above’, or ‘from aside’.
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