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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... consider this to be totally different from someone recounting an actual story . That is , we might consider the actual story as the standard , natural form and the fake one as a derived form or parasite . However , both the conversation ...
... consider the way people account for freedom and constraint . Rather than arguing directly with realism , the sorts of rhetorical devices that are used to shore up a realist position have been analysed ( Gergen , 1994 ; Potter , 1992 ) ...
... considering the various assumptions that a garage mechanic , for example , makes about ' his ' world and its nature , they themselves can see round the edges of this construction without any problems . They do not , that is , consider ...
... consider both the procedures through which versions are stabilized and made credible and the resources that those procedures draw on . The chapter develops an argument for taking an analytic approach to fact construction which focuses ...
... considers the significance of these arguments for the conduct and presentation of social science , taking work on public opinion and on social representations as two contrasting examples where a concern with the business done by ...
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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 |