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In her pioneering book Hard Core, Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of contemporary scholarship with her analysis of the most popular and enduring of all film and video genres. Now, fifteen years later, she showcases the next generation of critical thinking about pornography and signals new directions for study and teaching. Porn Studies resists the tendency to situate pornography as the outer limit of what can be studied and discussed. With revenues totaling between ten and fourteen billion dollars annually—more than the combined revenues of professional football, basketball, and baseball—visual, hard-core pornography is a central feature of American popular culture. It is time, Williams contends, for scholars to recognize this and give pornography a serious and extended analysis.The essays in this volume move beyond feminist debates and distinctions between a “good” erotica and a “bad” hard core. Contributors examine varieties of pornography from the tradition of the soft-core pin-up through the contemporary hard-core tradition of straight, gay, and lesbian videos and dvds to the burgeoning phenomenon of pornography on the Internet. They explore, as examples of the genre, individual works as divergent as The Starr Report, the pirated Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson honeymoon video, and explicit Japanese “ladies’ comics” consumed by women. They also probe difficult issues such as the sexualization of race and class and the relationship of pornography to the avant-garde. To take pornography seriously as an object of analysis also means teaching it. Porn Studies thus includes a useful annotated bibliography of readings and archival sources important to the study of pornography as a cultural form.Contributors. Heather Butler, Rich Cante, Jake Gerli, Minette Hillyer, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Despina Kakoudaki, Franklin Melendez, Ara Osterweil, Zabet Patterson, Constance Penley, Angelo Restivo, Eric Schaefer, Michael Sicinski, Deborah Shamoon, Maria St. John, Tom Waugh, Linda Williams

Pornography --- Pornographic films --- Social Sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Pornography and society --- Society and pornography --- Social aspects --- History and criticism

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Sociology --- Social sciences --- Sociologie --- Sciences sociales --- Research --- Methodology. --- Recherche --- Méthodologie --- #SBIB:303H12 --- Methoden en technieken: sociale wetenschappen --- Méthodologie --- Social theory --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Research&delete& --- Methodology

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Recent years have seen an increase in the use of visual methods of research across the social sciences. As researchers realize the potential of the visual, not only as a source but also as a means of generating data, a range of techniques has been developed which seek data that are different from those offered by more conventional qualitative research methods. The contributions to this collection start from the premise either that visual research allows a view of the social world which is not available by other means, or that its use offers a means of augmenting other methods, such as discussion and interview. Rather than providing a step-by-step guide to the use of visual methods, the various authors draw on their experience of visual research to provide critical and reflexive accounts of its use in the field, its potential for unlocking otherwise unseen places, spaces and social action and as a basis for the generation of conceptual and theoretical insight.

Visual sociology. --- Social sciences --- Qualitative research. --- Qualitative analysis (Research) --- Qualitative methods (Research) --- Research --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Sociology --- Visual communication --- Methodology. --- Audio-visual aids. --- Social research & statistics. --- Social Science --- Research.

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Questionnaires are one of the principal research tools for discovering people's thoughts, experience, attitudes and orientations to future action. Social scientists and researchers have been using questionnaires systematically for about three quarters of a century, since market research, opinion polling and survey research became a feature in both US and UK society in the 1920s and 30s. This collection provides the most complete resource of material about questions and questionnaires in social surveys.

Quantitative methods in social research --- Qualitative methods in social research --- #SBIB:303H32 --- Waarneming en participerende waarneming, gecontroleerde observatie, groepsdiscussie (vragenlijsten, interviews, experimenten) --- Questionnaires --- Social surveys --- Interviewing. --- Interviewing in sociology. --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Questioning --- Counseling --- Focus groups --- Interviews --- Social case work --- Methodology. --- Research --- Methodology --- Interviewing --- Interviewing in sociology --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Research&delete&

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'How to Build Social Science Theories' is an authoritative guide from a theory's genesis, to its dissemination, and through its evaluation.

Sociological theory building --- Methods in social research (general) --- Sociology --- Social sciences --- Methodology --- -Social sciences --- -#SBIB:303H0 --- #SBIB:043.IOS --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Social theory --- Methoden in de sociale wetenschappen: algemeen --- #SBIB:303H0 --- Methodology. --- Sociology - Methodology --- Social sciences - Methodology