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Reading visual images
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Reading visual images

Visual Images in Social Sciences

How do social scientists use visual images?

What does a picture or image tell you? This course is an introduction to analysing and interpreting photographs as social data. Who controls what the image is saying? You will look at how photographs provide visual evidence and how they can illustrate and support our ideas about society.

This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .