Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social ConstructionSAGE, 1996年8月13日 - 264 頁 `This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction′ - Discourse & Society How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. In this major work, Jonathan Potter offers a fascinating tour of the central themes raised by these questions. Representing Reality overviews the different traditions in constructionist thought. Points are illustrated throughout with varied and engaging examples taken from newspaper stories, relationship counselling sessions, accounts of the paranormal, social workers′ assessments of violent parents, informal talk between programme makers, political arguments and everyday conversations. Ranging across the social and human sciences, this book provides a lucid introduction to several key strands of work that have overturned the way we think about facts and descriptions, including: the sociology of scientific knowledge; conversation analysis and ethnomethodology; and semiotics, post-structuralism and postmodernism. |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 83 筆
... action orientation of description The epistemological orientation of description Combining action and epistemology 5 Interests and Category Entitlements Stake and interest Category entitlement Footing , neutrality and alignment Stake ...
... action 8 Criticizing Facts Facts , speech acts and constructionism Social science and fact construction Criticizing facts Appendix References Index 150 151 158 162 173 176 177 187 194 199 202 202 206 218 233 235 248 Acknowledgements ...
... actions . We read newspapers and watch television programmes which overflow with real life stories and varied factual claims . Factual reports are a commonplace currency of occupations as varied as doctors , teachers , engineers and ...
... actions such as assigning blame and showing who needs to change their behaviour . These three examples are intended to provide an initial orientation to the themes that will be explored in detail later in the book . Before then there ...
... action and object : on the one hand , it is ' the action of setting forth in words by mentioning recognizable features or characteristic marks ' and , on the other , it is ' a statement which describes , sets forth , or portrays ; a ...
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3 Semiology PostStructuralism Postmodernism | 68 |
4 Discourse and Construction | 97 |
5 Interests and Category Entitlements | 122 |
6 Constructing OutThereNess | 150 |
7 Working Up Representations | 176 |
8 Criticizing Facts | 202 |
Appendix | 233 |
References | 235 |
Index | 248 |