This book 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.
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 areas of research that frequently remain 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.
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
Matteo Jacopo Zaterini is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Human and Social Science at the University of Salento, Italy.
Corrado Punzi is an associate professor in sociology of cultural and communicative processes at the University of Salento, Italy.
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.
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