Visual methods in Historical sociology - YMH050

• Title: Vizuální metody v historické sociologii
• Form of teaching: seminar
• Guaranteed by: Programme Historical Sociology (24-HS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2026
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 26 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (30)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: 30
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Repeated enrollment: 1 (2) / 1 / 1 / 1
• Guarantor: Ludmiła Maria Dobrovolná Władyniak, M.A., Ph.D.
• Co-requisite : {The course under this code is intended for MA level students. If a course is shared, BA students may register for the bachelor’s version of the course, identified by a course code beginning with “YB".}
• Incompatibility : YBAJ351, YMH550
• Interchangeability : YMH150
• Is incompatible with: YMH550
• Is interchangeable with: YMH150

Annotation

Seminář je koncipován jako blok teoretických přednášek a praktických cvičení.

Last update: Dobrovolná Władyniak Ludmiła Maria, M.A., Ph.D. (30.01.2022)

Literature

Povinná:

• Berger, John. Ways of seeing. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1972, 166 s. ISBN 0-563-12244-7.
• Bourgois, Philippe; Schonberg, Jeffrey. Righteous dopefined. California: University of California Press, 2009, 392 s. ISBN 9780520254985.
• Butler, Judith. Frames of war : when is life grievable?. London: Verso, 2009, 193 s. ISBN 978-1-84467-333-9.
• Gillian, Rose. Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials. New York: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001, 304 s. ISBN 978-0761966654.
• Marisol, Clark-Ibánez. Framing the Social World With Photo-Elicitation Interviews. In American Behavioral Scientist. 7 (2004): 1507-1527.
• Sontag, Susan. On photography. New York: Anchor Books, 1990, 208 s. ISBN 0-385-26706-1.

Last update: Baláž Picková Monika, Mgr. (25.02.2026)

Syllabus

COURSE PROGRAM

1.   Introduction to the course I

FILM: John Berger Ways of seeing (1972), part 1

2.   Introduction to the course II

own images & presentations

3.     History of image and photography

 Sontag, Susan (2005) ‘On Photography’. New York: Rosetta Books, p. 1-20.

Film: The Hand that touches the Arm (2022)

4 & 5.  Visual semiotics & advertising

Rose, Gillian (2012) Semiology: laying bare the prejudices. Beneath the smooth surface of the visible, in: 'Visual Metodologies'. Thousand Oaks California: Sage Publications, p. 106-146.\

Film: Helmut Newton: the Bad and the Beautiful (2020)

6 & 7.  Photo workshop: interactions in public place

8.   War photography

Butler, Judith (2009) Torture and the Ethics of Photography: Thinking with Sontag, in: ‘Frames of War’. New York: Verso, p. 63-101.

FILM: The War Photographer (2001)

9.     Methods I: photo-essay

Bourgois,  Philippe & Jeff Schonberg (2009) Righteous dopefined. California University Press: chapter 7. 

10.  Methods II: photo-elicitation 

 Clark-Ibánez, Marisol (2004) Framing the Social World With Photo-Elicitation Interviews. American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 47, No. 12, pp. 1507-1527.

11 & 12. Presentation of final projects

Last update: Dobrovolná Władyniak Ludmiła Maria, M.A., Ph.D. (09.03.2023)

Learning resources

Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=9483

Last update: Dobrovolná Władyniak Ludmiła Maria, M.A., Ph.D. (30.01.2022)

Learning outcomes

Absolvent umí:

1. Vysvětlit základní teoretické přístupy vizuální sociologie a vizuálních studií.

2. Aplikovat vybrané vizuální výzkumné metody při práci s obrazovým materiálem v sociálních vědách.

3. Navrhnout a realizovat jednoduchý výzkumný projekt využívající vizuální data a kriticky reflektovat jeho metodologické limity.

Last update: Baláž Picková Monika, Mgr. (25.02.2026)