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- ↑ Harper, Douglas. "An argument for visual sociology." Image-based research: A sourcebook for qualitative researchers (1998): 24-41.
- ↑ Pink, Sarah. Doing visual ethnography. Sage, 2013.
- ↑ Status dynamics and social control in a community action program
- ↑ John Grady : Professor of Sociology, William Isaac Cole Chair in Sociology Anthropology (2010-2015) at wheatoncollege.edu. 2015.
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