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Модель применения исследовательской фотографии при изучении социального взаимодействия
The article examines the creation and analysis of photographic images in the course of sociological research. A brief overview of a number of works where photography is used as a source for describing social interaction is presented. It is shown that the “readymade photography” in the contrast to the “research photography” has a number of restrictive properties that do not allow it to be relevant to the description of social interaction. The research photography is seen as a resource that is used to create a model for studying social interaction. For this purpose the model is initially organized in three stages (preparation for the research, finding the photographer-researcher directly in the field, providing research results) with an epistemological principle inherent in each stage. The principle of assumed and non-assumed information corresponds to the preparatory stage of the study. The principle of selective continuity corresponds to the field stage. The final stage of research corresponds to the principle of analysis of a photographic event. Then we consider the variables responsible for the research process in each stage. At the first stage methodology, research problem, expected results are considered. In the second stage these are the membership of the research photographer in a social institution, the place of photographing, the visibility of the scene and the act of photographing. For the third stage we consider the field archive, the linearity of the event and the event-process, the photo as an illustration and as data. The research photographer himself occupies a central position in the proposed model. The created model is illustrated by two field cases whithin the framework of the study of “group cohesion”.