The Sociological Image Nation

Authors

  • Bart Beaty Department of English, University of Calgary https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8752-4602

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12779

Keywords:

Modernism, Research Creation, Autography, Narrativization, Transdisciplinarity

Abstract

This article points to the origins of the comics format in nineteenth-century Geneva as a way to think through some of the fundamental questions posed by the use of comics production to report social scientific findings. Surveying the articles in this special issue, a case is built for the importance of transdisciplinary approaches in the field of sociology and elsewhere.



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Published

2021-05-26

How to Cite

Beaty, B. (2021). The Sociological Image Nation. Sociologica, 15(1), 299–304. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12779

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