Visual organization of body : Micro-sociological research on the reflexive organization of visual experience and social world

我们计划在我们的社会世界中对“身体”进行一次经验性的视觉研究。研究方法是自摄影，试图通过摄影来探索人们的观点，他们自己拍摄照片来回答这个问题，“你是谁？”“它最初是作为一种自我概念研究的方法而开发的。但在这项研究中，它被用作一个可能的工具，接近人们的主观视觉经验。在两年的时间里，248名学生参加了我们的研究项目，每人拍摄了大约25张照片。拍照后，他们被要求挑选10张“好”的照片，这些照片似乎适合“我是谁”的问题，然后用我们提供的照片描述表格描述它们。就这样，最终收集了6116张照片和2318个描述并构建在一个数据库中--自动摄影数据库。我们筛选出2050张有描述的照片，并通过内容分析程序进行分析。此外，我们还采访了一些参与者关于他们的自摄-照片启发式采访。分析的重点是被试在他们的自摄照片中描绘的方向。许多照片与相关研究中的照片一样显示了人的取向，但我们的研究对象的自拍照片，出乎意料的是，包含更多的东西取向比他人取向。此外，虽然许多研究都提到女性的自拍中更多的是社会关系（他人）取向，但我们无法证实这一点--许多女性更多的是拍东西，而不是拍人。我们发现，可以说，在我们的受试者的自拍照中，“使用事物意象的视觉自我叙述”。毕竟，我们无法获得与“身体”直接相关的重要数据。但我们可以肯定自摄影方法的某些有效性，并为我们的研究项目找到了一个整体的基础和目标--社会世界的视觉组织研究。也就是说，研究社会世界中事物的视觉形态。

We planned an empirical visual research on "body" in our social world. Research method was autophotography-which seeks to explore people's views via photography, taken by themselves as answer to the question, "who are you?" It has been originally developed as a method for self-concept study. But in this study, it was used as a probable tool for approach to people's subjective visual experience. In two years, 248 students participated in our research project, and each took approximately 25 autophotos. After taking pictures, they were said to pick up 10 "good" photos, which seemed appropriate to the "who-am-I" question, and then to describe them with using the photo description forms which we provided. In this way, 6116 photos and 2318 descriptions were finally gathered and constructed in a database -the autophoto database. We screened out 2050 photo with description, and analyzed through content analysis procedure. Furthermore, we interviewed some of participants about their autophotos-photo elicitation interview. Focus of analysis was on subjects' orientations depicted in their autophotos. Many photos indicated people-orientations as in the related studies, but our subjects' autophotos, unanticipatedly, contained more thing-orientations than other-person-orientations. Furthermore, although many studies have mentioned to more social relation (other person) orientations in women's autophotos, we could not confirm it-many women took more photos of things rather than photos of persons. We found, as it were, "visual self narrative using thing-imagery" in our subjects' autophotos. After all, we could not get significant data related directly to "body". But we could confirm some availability of autophotography method, and got a ground and target for our research project as a whole-a research on visual organization of social world. That is to say, research on the visual configuration of things in social world.