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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... Detail and narrative Truth is stranger than fiction 7 Working up Representations Categorization and ontological gerrymandering Extrematization and minimization Normalization and abnormalization Representations in action 8 Criticizing ...
... 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 are three tasks . First , I will provide a small number of brief ...
... detail . It is not the general pattern of events so much as the details that makes the story credible . These are the sorts of things that someone who was there to witness events would know but which are not intrinsic to the general ...
... detail in Chapter 7 . This example also shows up the sorts of skills that people have for undermining and resisting factual versions . Although this phrase was used as part of a distinction between lying and giving a misleading ...
... detail of my life is transformed into another party piece . Pubs , bus stops , the office , are all turned into impromptu theatre spaces . . . . Often there is no incident . Having a point , an event or bizarre coincidence is reserved ...
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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 |