Description
Photovoice
Take a walk around your neighbourhood with your camera. Please use your common sense and follow the advice of your local health officials. If it is not safe to walk in your neighbourhood due to health conditions please let me know.
This assignment asks you to put sociology/anthropology into practice by examining how families are supported, or constructed, or hindered within your neighbourhood. You are to take pictures of your neighbourhood reflecting on eight of the course themes we are discussing this term (the themes are our sessions for this course – see the course outline for formal titles). You will need to do a bit of reading in advance if you choose themes that we have not yet discussed in class.
This does not mean that you should only have eight pictures (see below) but there should be enough to tell the story of your neighbourhood and how families are reflected therein. Your pictures should not have people in them as you do not have permission to take their photos.
1. you need a minimum of three pictures per course theme. You can be as creative as you like with your photography but it needs to come back to the theme you are profiling.
2. Each image needs a caption of some kind so that your reader knows how you are applying/interpreting the course theme and its reflection in your neighbourhood.
3. There needs to be an introduction to your neighbourhood to provide some context for your images – 350-500 words.
4. You need a brief discussion (400 words minimum) about each of the theme you have chosen with a minimum of one peer reviewed source (minimum ten in total) to help frame your definition of the theme and how it has been applied to your neighbourhood. You can consider structural elements of your neighbourhood, impacts, family outcomes, infrastructure, support, etc. No you cannot use your course notes. If you choose to include course readings they will not count towards the minimum requirements for the assignment.
5. Have fun!
You can also incorporate media headlines, flyers or other materials to illustrate how the anthropology/sociology of the family themes we have discussed this term are reflected in your neighbourhood.
For more information on the use of Photovoice as a methodological tool and examples of what your project may look like please see:
https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/assessment…
http://healthsystemsresearch.org/hsr2018/photovoic…
