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  • Visual Methods in the Social Sciences: Refugee Background Young People

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    Matthews, J
    Singh, P
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Singh, Parlo
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    This article discusses visual research methods trialled with young African background refugees. We suggest here that visual methods offer a useful means of accessing the lives of minority young people, because they resonate with the visually mediated culture they are already familiar with and do not rely entirely on linguistic capacity. Visual methods are thus generative and able to secure participant interest and commitment amongst a group who may not be comfortable with traditional interview or focus group methods. The article observes that visual methods have until recently been neglected in the social sciences, and when ...
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    This article discusses visual research methods trialled with young African background refugees. We suggest here that visual methods offer a useful means of accessing the lives of minority young people, because they resonate with the visually mediated culture they are already familiar with and do not rely entirely on linguistic capacity. Visual methods are thus generative and able to secure participant interest and commitment amongst a group who may not be comfortable with traditional interview or focus group methods. The article observes that visual methods have until recently been neglected in the social sciences, and when they are applied it is often with the intention of undertaking semiotic or discourse analysis. Although the project discussed in this article was initiated with the intention of pursuing this analytic direction, we found that other rewards were to be gained from using visual methods. We discuss the project's unanticipated research directions and its ethical challenges. The article closes by arguing that the reluctance of social science researchers to use visual methods are as much related to the historical development of qualitative research and the efforts of the social sciences to align themselves with empiricism and science, as with the specific limits and challenges of the approach.
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    Journal Title
    The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
    Volume
    4
    Issue
    10
    Publisher URI
    https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/visual-methods-in-the-social-sciences?category_id=cgrn&path=cgrn%2F268%2F276
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2009. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal's website or contact the authors.
    Subject
    LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy
    Marketing
    Social work
    Sociology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/30206
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