LA EMERGENCIA DE LA MIRADA SOCIOLÓGICA: ANÁLISIS SOCIOLÓGICO SOBRE LAS DIMENSIONES SOCIALES DE LAS IMÁGENES

Abstract

In this document are presented three visual phenomena that had an impact on the Costa Rican society. The visual formats were: an international photograph, a local/national video, and finally, the phenomenon known as “selfie” or digital self-portrait. There are developed a series of ideas about sociological profiles in order to comprehend the relationships and stereotypes. But with the purpose of question them and suggest other comprehension methods, what we call, following a traditional sociological concept, the sociological imagination. One of the reached conclusions is that the convulsed and broken vision of the analyzing method causes that making a digital self-portrait is the way of not seeing one’s self implicated in the uncertainty. This document is also a pedagogical effort to approach the students and other readers to the sociological reflection, from the visual experience and possible assimilations.