1 Cultures of seeing: pedagogies of

In this article we seek to contribute to research on the visual, visual methodologies and the senses in social sciences. Our concern is with shedding some light on the social organization of vision. The empirical material is a ‘walking with video ’ which is also a ‘seeing with video’. The empirical material is used, firstly, to examine how one person instructs the other into how to look for and find something, along with how the person being instructed is able to demonstrate that they have successfully seen the thing, and how in turn the instructor can assess whether the novice had indeed seen what they claim to have seen. Secondly, and perhaps more unusually, a tutorial exercise or pedagogy of seeing is included which helps the reader experience certain features of looking and seeing which are not easily accessible through reading a text alone