Includes bibliographical references and index.

Visual anthropology / Marcus Banks -- An argument for visual sociolo gy / Douglas Harper -- Film-making and ethnographic research / Paul Hen ley -- "The camera never lies" / Brian Winston -- Psychology and photog raphic theory / âOrla Cronin -- Visual sociology, documentary photograp hy, and photojournalism / Howard S. Becker -- The status of image-based research / Jon Prosser -- Photographs within the sociological research process / Jon Prosser and Dona Schwartz -- Remarks on visual competenc e as an integral part of ethnographic fieldwork practice / Michael Ball -- Photocontext / Clem Adelman -- Media convergence and social researc h / Rob Walker and Ron Lewis -- The application of images in child abus e investigations / Hollida Wakefield and Ralph Underwager -- Picture th is! Class line-ups, vernacular portraits and lasting impressions of sch ool / Claudia Mitchell and Sandra Weber -- Interpreting family photogra phy as pictorial communication / Richard Chalfen -- Pupils using photog raphs in school self-evaluation / Michael Schratz and Ulrike Steiner-L èoffler -- Cartoons and teachers / Terry Warburton -- Images and curric ulum development in health education / Noreen M. Wetton and Jennifer Mc Whirter -- Making meanings in art worlds / Elizabeth Chaplin.