Creativity and Sociology

Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-56150-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 3550 g

Reihe: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

Creativity and Sociology: Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources explores the relationship between artistic and sociological narratives, considering the ways in which artistic narratives in their different forms can be both subjects of sociological observation and tools for the sociological analysis of reality. Thematically divided into sections that focus on “doing sociology on art” ’ and “doing sociology with art”, it observes the major forms of art – including literature, music, theatre, painting, photography, cinematography, and interactive arts such as videogames – examining each as objects and instruments of sociological analysis: as narratives that can offer new perspectives on the world. Bringing together under a single epistemological framework area of research that frequently remains separate, or beyond sociological framing, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory, and social science methodology with interests in media and artistic narratives.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zaterini, Matteo Jacopo

Punzi, Corrado

Longo, Mariano

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part 1: Creative Sources of Social Research: Doing Sociology on Art  1. Music - "Soundscapes” and the “Acoustic Past”: Collective Memories and the Musical Composition of Space and Time 2. Literature - From Aesthetics to Politics: Opening up the Sociological Dimension of Literature 3. Theater - Sociology of Theatre in the Age of the Uncertainty of “Glocal” and Mediatized Societies 4. Comics - On the Sociology of Comics: History, Dreams, and Panoptical Thinking 5. Photography - Interrogating “Street Photography” as a Cultural Practice, a Visual Data Source, and a Sociological Research Strategy 6. Cinema - Cinema as Memory: The Sociological Use of Films 7. Videogames - The Videogame Plane: A Non-Representational Methodology of Form Part 2: Creative Methodologies of Social Research: Doing Sociology with Art 8. Music - Doing Music Together: Classifications of Genre, Heritage, and Canon 9. Literature - Doing Social Research with Literary Narratives 10. Theatre - Theatre as a Tool for the Researcher's Work with Groups and on Oneself: Elements to Build a Theatrical Sociology 11. Comics - The Society Born from the Balloon: Doing Sociology with Comics 12. Photography - Rethinking Photo-elicitation in Ethnography, Autoethnography, Creative (Art-Based) Methods, and Collaborative Methods 13. Cinema - Qualitative Research with Social Science Films: From Data Collection to Film Production 14. Videogames - The Representation of Delirium: A Link between Player and Society 15. Afterword - A Dialogical Conversation on Creativity and Art in the Social Sciences: From Visual Sociology to Creative Methods

Über Autor(innen)

Mariano Longo is a professor of sociology at the University of Salento, Italy. He is the author of Emotions through Literature and Fiction and Social Reality.

Corrado Punzi is an associate professor in sociology of cultural and communicative processes at the University of Salento, Italy.

Matteo Jacopo Zaterini is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Human and Social Science at the University of Salento, Italy.