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The article aims to sum up the reflections concerning visual culture and the visual aspect of life that have appeared in Polish sociology over the last twenty years as well as to analyse the area associated today with visual sociology. The authors give a short review of the history of Polish visual sociology, indicating at the beginning the most essential scientific and didactic events in this field. Further on, they analyse the ways of understanding the notion 'visual sociology' (and its cognate notions). They present the use of photography in anthropology and in social research, and give a critical analysis of the studies and representation of visual culture at the beginning of the 20th century. This leads them to the designation of two scopes of the contemporary notion of visual sociology: a more narrow (methodological) one and a broader one (which they call: 'the sociology of visual culture'). In all, this analysis shows the ways in which the term 'visual sociology' (and its cognate terms) has been gradually adopted, developed and re-defined in Poland.
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Punktem wyjścia jest Douglasa Harpera rekonstrukcja obszarów problemowych i narzędzi badawczych socjologii wizualnej. Służy ona za kontekst krytycznej analizy sposobu myślenia o wspomnianym obszarze badań; myślenia, które jest dominujące i które utrudnia jego dalszy rozwój. Analizując wykorzystanie obrazu w narracji socjologicznej, rolę technologii wizualnej w przeobrażeniach sposobu prowadzenia badań, a także teoretyczne korzenie tych badań, autor stara się zidentyfikować główne problemy odpowiadające za taki stan rzeczy oraz możliwości uporania się z nimi. Proponowana jest zmiana sposobu konceptualizacji fotografii na użytek socjologii – odejście od jej rozumienia w kategoriach reprezentacji na rzecz ujmowania jej jako praktyki społecznej. Przyjęcie takiego założenia, poza wskazaniem na ewaluację metodologicznego, teoretycznego i etycznego zaplecza badań wizualnych, pozwala na zarysowanie planu poszerzenia ich obecnego obszaru problemowego.
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The starting point is Douglas Harp's reconstruction of problem areas and research instruments of visual sociology. It provides the context for critical analysis of the way this area of research is thought of, which dominates and impedes its further development. By analyzing the deployment of image in sociological narrative, the function of visual technology in the transformations of research practices as well as theoretical grounding of these research, the author strives to identify the main problems responsible for the current state of affairs in the discipline and the chances of remedy. A change of the method of conceptualizing photography in sociology is advocated, in order to give up its comprehension in terms of representation and move towards understanding it as a social practice. By adopting this assumption, apart from indicating the evaluation of methodological, theoretical and ethical background of visual research, it is also possible to outline the plan to expand its current problem area.
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