Creativity and Sociology

Introduction Part 1: Creative Sources of Social Research: Doing Sociology on Art 1. Music - "Soundscapes" and the "Acoustic Past": Collective Memories and the Musical Composition of Space and Time 2. Literature - From Aesthetics to Politics: Opening up the Sociological Dimension of Literature 3. Theater - Sociology of Theatre in the Age of the Uncertainty of "Glocal" and Mediatized Societies 4. Comics - On the Sociology of Comics: History, Dreams, and Panoptical Thinking 5. Photography - Interrogating "Street Photography" as a Cultural Practice, a Visual Data Source, and a Sociological Research Strategy 6. Cinema - Cinema as Memory: The Sociological Use of Films 7. Videogames - The Videogame Plane: A Non-Representational Methodology of Form Part 2: Creative Methodologies of Social Research: Doing Sociology with Art 8. Music - Doing Music Together: Classifications of Genre, Heritage, and Canon 9. Literature - Doing Social Research with Literary Narratives 10. Theatre - Theatre as a Tool for the Researcher's Work with Groups and on Oneself: Elements to Build a Theatrical Sociology 11. Comics - The Society Born from the Balloon: Doing Sociology with Comics 12. Photography - Rethinking Photo-elicitation in Ethnography, Autoethnography, Creative (Art-Based) Methods, and Collaborative Methods 13. Cinema - Qualitative Research with Social Science Films: From Data Collection to Film Production 14. Videogames - The Representation of Delirium: A Link between Player and Society 15. Afterword - A Dialogical Conversation on Creativity and Art in the Social Sciences: From Visual Sociology to Creative Methods