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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... arguments , and pull out the issues which are particularly relevant to the study of fact construction , while avoiding getting bogged down in unnecessary technicalities . The coverage is comparative and points of convergence and ...
... argument between a husband and wife , is organized in enormously fine detail and with great subtlety . If I can convey some of that subtlety and intricate organization here I will be very happy . Before starting with Chapter 1 , there ...
... argue that issues involving the construction of versions are endemic in conversation . People package their lives into narratives which they tell for a whole range of different purposes . For example , one of the materials which will be ...
... arguing directly with realism , the sorts of rhetorical devices that are used to shore up a realist position have ... argument ( ' see this [ bangs on table ] ; you're not telling me that's a social construction ' ) and the death ...
... argue that to understand the way factual accounts are constructed , and the way they are bound up with activities ... arguments about 8 Representing Reality.
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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 |