TY - CONF

T1 - Relating materiality to communication and meaning: a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods

AU - Khokhlova, A.

AU - Basov, N.

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - This paper focuses on techniques to grasp material context in its relation to symbolic and social orders by combining qualitative and quantitative methods of social research. Departing from Latour’s ANT and Knorr Cetina’s object-centered sociality, we seek to relate social and meaning structures to everyday material context. In doing so, we study artistic collectives, for which the role of space and materiality has been widely recognized (Carlozzi et al. 1995; Meusburger 2009; Griswold et al. 2013), as artists are particularly responsive to stimuli from material environment. Few studies aimed to empirically tackle the relations between the symbolic world of artistic creation and the material world of objects normally use ethnographic observation, interviews and photo elicitation. Supplementing those with quantitative methods, such as formal textual analysis and sociometric surveys, we attempt to trace patterns in how objects are used and narrated applying a set of techniques to map and triangulate relations b

AB - This paper focuses on techniques to grasp material context in its relation to symbolic and social orders by combining qualitative and quantitative methods of social research. Departing from Latour’s ANT and Knorr Cetina’s object-centered sociality, we seek to relate social and meaning structures to everyday material context. In doing so, we study artistic collectives, for which the role of space and materiality has been widely recognized (Carlozzi et al. 1995; Meusburger 2009; Griswold et al. 2013), as artists are particularly responsive to stimuli from material environment. Few studies aimed to empirically tackle the relations between the symbolic world of artistic creation and the material world of objects normally use ethnographic observation, interviews and photo elicitation. Supplementing those with quantitative methods, such as formal textual analysis and sociometric surveys, we attempt to trace patterns in how objects are used and narrated applying a set of techniques to map and triangulate relations b

KW - mixed methods

KW - material context

KW - ANT

KW - object-centered sociality

M3 - Abstract

T2 - Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination. ESA 12th Conference

Y2 - 24 August 2015 through 27 August 2015

ER -