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. Music - "Soundscapes and the Acoustic Past:
Collective Memories and the Musical Composition of Space and Time
2.
Literature - From Aesthetics to Politics: Opening up the Sociological
Dimension of Literature
3. Theater - Sociology of Theatre in the Age of the
Uncertainty of Glocal and Mediatized Societies
4. Comics - On the Sociology
of Comics: History, Dreams, and Panoptical Thinking
5. Photography -
Interrogating Street Photography as a Cultural Practice, a Visual Data
Source, and a Sociological Research Strategy
6. Cinema - Cinema as Memory:
The Sociological Use of Films
7. Videogames - The Videogame Plane: A
Non-Representational Methodology of Form Part 2: Creative Methodologies of
Social Research: Doing Sociology with Art
8. Music - Doing Music Together:
Classifications of Genre, Heritage, and Canon
9. Literature - Doing Social
Research with Literary Narratives
10. Theatre - Theatre as a Tool for the
Researcher's Work with Groups and on Oneself: Elements to Build a Theatrical
Sociology
11. Comics - The Society Born from the Balloon: Doing Sociology
with Comics
12. Photography - Rethinking Photo-elicitation in Ethnography,
Autoethnography, Creative (Art-Based) Methods, and Collaborative Methods
13.
Cinema - Qualitative Research with Social Science Films: From Data Collection
to Film Production
14. Videogames - The Representation of Delirium: A Link
between Player and Society
15. Afterword - A Dialogical Conversation on
Creativity and Art in the Social Sciences: From Visual Sociology to Creative
Methods
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.
Corrado Punzi is an associate professor in sociology of cultural and communicative processes at the University of Salento, Italy.
Matteo Jacopo Zaterini is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Human and Social Science at the University of Salento, Italy.
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