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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... contrast between fact and fiction and reflexivity . This is not a real dialogue between an undercover cop and his boss - it is invented , and it is part of a fiction where a whole set of considerations about the dialogue will be at work ...
... contrasts made between facts and inferences or fictions : ' a particular truth known by actual observation or authentic testimony , as opposed to what is merely inferred , or to a conjecture or fiction ' ( OED ) . The interest in facts ...
... contrast that I want to pick out is the way fact implies truth and real occurrence while description does not . This book covers the interactional space between these two notions , the business of building up a description as a fact ...
... contrast to what came later . Traditional Sociology of Science Typically , traditional sociology of science was concerned with two questions . How is science organized as a social institution in such a way that scientists regularly and ...
... contrast , an observation that meshes with a large body of theory may be accepted with relatively little discussion . In the 1950s , the American philosopher Willard van Orman Quine developed Duhem's ideas about the interconnection of ...
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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 |