SOCY 465 - Visual Sociology

Do you like looking at pictures? And taking pictures? Are you interested in studying the social world through your camera? Is photography art, science, or something else? In Visual Sociology we’ll be sociologists with cameras and we’ll employ photography as a social science research tool. 

This course examines the impact of visual imagery on the social world and studies the various ways in which visual imagery may be employed to investigate the social world. Additionally, the history of photography and sociology will be reviewed, with consideration of the methodological issues arising from the use of visual research methods in social science. This course will provide firsthand experience merging photography and sociology.