Making Sociologically-Grounded Fictions. A Review of the Sociorama Collection Experience

Jérôme  Berthaut; Jennifer Bidet; Mathias Thura

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12777

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Jérôme Berthaut CIMEOS, Université de Bourgogne

Jérôme Berthaut, sociologist, is Associate Professor at the University of Burgundy and member of CIMEOS, a lab on information and communication science. He is in secondment at the lab CESSP/EHESS – Paris Panthéon Sorbonne. His research focusses mostly on media and journalism.
Jennifer Bidet Cerlis-CNRS/Université de Paris https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6870-4704

Jennifer Bidet, sociologist, is Associate Professor at the University Paris Descartes, and researcher at Cerlis. Her research interests include the study of migrations and families through the lens of class, gender and race.
Mathias Thura Sage-CNRS/Université de Strasbourg

Mathias Thura, sociologist, is Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg, and at the lab SAGE/CNRS. His research interests include the sociology of professions, of body and of violence, kept together in his researches on armed forces. He is cofounder of the book collection Sociorama.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12777

Keywords:

Graphic Novels, Comic-ization, Popularization, Communicating Social Sciences, Sociological Writing

Abstract

As members of the scientific committee of a collection of sociological comic strips, we offer feedback here on our experience of translating qualitative sociological research into graphic fictions. Through the presentation of main editorial choices and the organization of the adaptation work, we explain and discuss the effects produced by this type of adaptation on sociological discourse. We present a “lesson learned” from this adaptation process that disrupted and challenged the inherent assumptions of academic sociological writing. This review of Sociorama albums highlights some advantages and successes, as well as some limitations and obstacles introduced by this comic-ization.

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