Creativity and Sociology

Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources

Author: Matteo Jacopo Zaterini, Corrado Punzi and Mariano Longo Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

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This book explores the relationship between artistic and sociological narratives, considering the ways in which artistic narratives in their different forms can be both subjects of sociological observation and tools for the sociological analysis of reality.

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Creativity and Sociology: Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources explores the relationship between artistic and sociological narratives, considering the ways in which artistic narratives in their different forms can be both subjects of sociological observation and tools for the sociological analysis of reality. Thematically divided into sections that focus on “doing sociology on art” ’ and “doing sociology with art”, it observes the major forms of art – including literature, music, theatre, painting, photography, cinematography, and interactive arts such as videogames – examining each as objects and instruments of sociological analysis: as narratives that can offer new perspectives on the world. Bringing together under a single epistemological framework area of research that frequently remains separate, or beyond sociological framing, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory, and social science methodology with interests in media and artistic narratives.

About the Author

Matteo Jacopo Zaterini is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Human and Social Science at the University of Salento, Italy.

Corrado Punzi is an associate professor in sociology of cultural and communicative processes at the University of Salento, Italy.

Mariano Longo is a professor of sociology at the University of Salento, Italy. He is the author of Emotions through Literature and Fiction and Social Reality.