Sixteen professionals examine the ways in which photography can best be used as a social science tool -- to elicit interviewee responses, to preserve information, to present data that can be meaningfully analyzed. The very real problem of ambiguity in visual images is faced; the use of camera technology to uncover the way other cultures see the world is considered; techniques of content analysis are discussed. An exciting new development in the social sciences thus begins to establish its parameters and disciplines. ...
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Sixteen professionals examine the ways in which photography can best be used as a social science tool -- to elicit interviewee responses, to preserve information, to present data that can be meaningfully analyzed. The very real problem of ambiguity in visual images is faced; the use of camera technology to uncover the way other cultures see the world is considered; techniques of content analysis are discussed. An exciting new development in the social sciences thus begins to establish its parameters and disciplines. Illustrated with photographs. It is a book which is pleasant to read and to those who would use cameras in their work it offers enticing examples of intriguing things to do with photographs. -- Information Des
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Very Good+ in Very Good-dust jacket. 0803910886. B&W Photographs; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 311 pages; 1979 SAGE Publications. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original dust jacket. Jacket lightly sunned at spined and with light shelf rubbing and weat ot edges and surfaces. Illustrated with some b&w photos; cotnets clean, bright and neat. VG+/VG-