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 51 筆
... context where it is a response to an accusation . It addresses inconsistencies in testimony while resisting the implication that the speaker had been lying . The simple point here is that people do not produce descriptions out of the ...
... context . While Chapters 5 and 6 concentrate on the epistemological orientation of descriptions , Chapter 7 is focused on their action orientation . As this is such a huge topic I restrict coverage to three themes . The chapter ...
... context of facts . It is worth briefly considering the nature of this earlier work to provide a contrast to what came later . Traditional Sociology of Science Typically , traditional sociology of science was concerned with two questions ...
... context in which they are used ( Mulkay , 1976 , 1980 ) . Moreover , it is possible to consider scientific accounts which invoke such norms as vocabularies of justification ( Mulkay and Gilbert , 1981 ; Potter , 1984 18 Representing ...
... context . A full sociological analysis of the content of science of scientific ideas , theories , methods and so on - was reserved only for falsehoods . With the benefit of hindsight , we can see that these sociologists embraced ...
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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 |