Visual methods in historical sociology - YMH550

• Title: Visual methods in historical sociology
• Guaranteed by: Programme Historical Sociology (24-HS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2024 to 2024
• 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 (5)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: YMGS645
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Ludmila Maria Dobrovolná Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Ludmila Maria Dobrovolná Wladyniak, M.A., Ph.D.
• Co-requisite : {The course under this code is intended for MA level students. BA students interested in this course need to enrol the BA level code that begins with "YB".}
• Incompatibility : YBAJ351, YMGS645, YMH050, YMH150
• Is incompatible with: YBAJ351, YBLS015, YMH150, YMH050, YMGS645

Annotation

The course is outlined as a block of theoretical lectures and practical exercises in the field of visual research methods.

Last update: Dobrovolná Wladyniak Ludmila Maria, M.A., Ph.D. (30.01.2022)

Syllabus

COURSE PROGRAM

1.   Introduction to the course I

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

2 & 3.  Photo workshop: interactions in public place

4.     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)

5.   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)

6 & 7.  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)

8. The final project planning and design

In-class discussion and work

9.  Methods I: photo-elicitation 

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

10.     Methods II: photo-essay

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

11. Presentation of final projects

 

Last update: Dobrovolná Wladyniak Ludmila Maria, M.A., Ph.D. (24.03.2025)

Learning resources

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

Last update: Dobrovolná Wladyniak Ludmila Maria, M.A., Ph.D. (30.01.2022)