XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018)

656

Analyzing Films and Series As a Way to Social Knowledge

RC37 Sociology of Arts (host committee)

Language: English

This session aims to evaluate the state of art of research in sociology that have their principal focus in the analyses of films and TV series as a way to achieve social knowledge about societies, institutions or social movements. It intends to discuss sociological possibilities and strategies in the analyses of such images and discourses in their epistemological, methodological or analytical problems and approaches, in order to problematize films as an important social phenomena that alludes to the observer various possibilities of meaning constitution and interpretation about reality and social organization, social groups and their relational systems of values and social structuration. In this way, it aims to compare differentially these possible perspectives related to films in their various possibilities of discourses, from the movie films to TV films and series, fiction or documentary, in order to discuss their epistemological, methodological or analytical proximities or discrepancies in the social sciences researches.