Creativity and Sociology : Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources (Hardcover)

Introduction Part 1: Creative Sources of Social Research: Doing Sociology on Art 1. Literature - From Aesthetics to Politics: Opening up the Sociological Dimension of Literature 2. Theater - After the Brain Invasion: From Oppressed People to Capability Context 3. Cinema - Cinema as Traumatic Memory: The Sociological Use of Documentary Films 4. Photography - Interrogating ‘Street Photography’ as a Cultural Practice, a Visual Data Source, and a Sociological Research Strategy 5. Comics - On the Sociology of Comics: History, Dreams, and Panoptical Thinking 6. Music - ‘Soundscapes’ and the ‘Acoustic Past’: Collective Memories and The Musical Composition of Space and Time 7. Videogames - The Videogame Plane: A Non-Representational Methodology of Form Part 2: Creative Methodologies of Social Research: Doing Sociology with Art 8. Literature - Making Social Research with Fictional Narratives 9. Theater - Sociology of Theatre in the Age of the Uncertainty of ‘Glocal’ and Mediatized Societies 10. Cinema - Qualitative Research with Social Science Films: From Data Collection to Film Production 11. Photography - Rethinking Photo-Elicitation in Ethnography, Autoethnography, Creative (Art-Based) Methods and Collaborative Methods 12. Comics - The Society Born from the Balloon: Doing Sociology with Comics 13. Music - Musicking, Boundary-Work, and Collective Memory: The Construction of Genre, Heritage, and Canons 14. Videogames - The Representation of Delirium: A Link between Player and Society