RESEARCH ON USING IMAGES IN SOCIOLOGY ; PARTICULARLY USING IMAGES FOR SOCIOLOGY EDUCATION

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The purpose of this research is to conduct practical research and theory-oriented research on using images for education. At the same time, the purpose of this is to promote the study, production, and use of visual images, data, and materials in teaching, and to foster the development and use of still photographs, video, and film in sociology.Conducting practical research was to produce multimedia materials, like a CD-ROM, for education at the university classrooms. Text on "Rice in Asia", and choosing photographs on the contexts were prepared at first. The contents were on the rice farmers in Japan, to compare the same as Asian rice farmers as in East and Southeast Asia countries. The photographs also were taken in the process of cultivating, planting, and harvesting. The authoring application software processed compiling the text and the photographs through PC. After that, the professional researchers who have been interested in use of visual images and multimedia itself evaluated the multimedia materials in this case. They made comments that the edit of the text and visual images should be done at the same time and collected photographs matched the lectures.Conducting theory-oriented research was to trace the research reports and the related papers on anthropology at first, and looked into the sociological research papers of Journal of International Visual Sociology Association in mainly and the international sociological issues. Although the origin phase of sociology was almost the same time as photograph invention, a few decades has passed not to conduct visual sociological research until 1960's. Today faced to multimedia era, theory expansion of visual sociology will be directed particularly to building theory itself, research methods, and educational usages.