Artistry in Social Science Research

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dc.contributor.advisorRusted, Brian
dc.contributor.authorDam, Shirley Cassandra
dc.contributor.committeememberEinsiedel, Edna
dc.contributor.committeememberMcCoy, Liza
dc.contributor.committeememberEstefan, Andrew
dc.contributor.committeememberPink, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-06T16:51:35Z
dc.date.available2016-01-06T16:51:35Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-06
dc.date.submitted2015en
dc.description.abstractThis interpretive research study is an inquiry into social science researchers’ aesthetic practices in relation with photographic-based research practices. Specifically, it is an hermeneutic study that probes their experiences of practice careers and trajectories of practitioners in relation to expectations, traditions, and conventions of visual research communities. I explore through my conversations with five visual researchers from diverse social science disciplines the relevancy of aesthetics in evolving photographic research practices guided by philosophical hermeneutics and practice theory. Participants demonstrate that photographic-based research practices are messy, interdisciplinary, and complex because of the shared, entwined histories of photography, disciplinary traditions, and emerging aesthetic practices. The inquiry explores changing practices over time and space, creating a possible trajectory of aesthetic practice in photographic-based research practices. This trajectory is based on participants’ recollections of practice careers and literature about photography’s emergence into multiple histories across disciplines and fields and its ultimate establishment as a legitimate social science approach to data collection, analysis, and dissemination. It probes participants’ expectations, traditions, desires, and values of photographic-based research practices and relationships with aesthetic practices as their visual research careers evolved over time and space. Visual researchers face increasing complexity and challenges in their individual practices because of evolving shared practices. This includes their place(s) within visual research and disciplinary communities, borrowing from other disciplines, challenges to traditional expectations of collective practices, and their own desires to innovate and contribute to visual research methods. Aesthetic practices further complicate both individual and community practices, as aesthetics is still viewed by some practitioners as the domain of the arts and irrelevant to social science while others explore social worlds with aesthetic experience and expressions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDam, S. C. (2016). Artistry in Social Science Research (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24998en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/24998
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/2724
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectArt History
dc.subjectFine Arts
dc.subjectMass Communications
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectSociology--Theory and Methods
dc.subject.classificationPhotographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationHermeneuticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationVisual Communicationsen_US
dc.subject.classificationAestheticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationVisual Researchen_US
dc.subject.classificationPractice Theoryen_US
dc.titleArtistry in Social Science Research
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineCommunication and Culture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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