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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... language that made referential issues of truth and falsity paramount . In place of the overwhelming philosophical concern with the ' truth value ' of statements taken in the abstract , Austin emphasised the practical nature of language ...
... language of knowledge and understanding are permeated with visual metaphors : looking for the truth , seeing the point , viewing it as self - evident , and so on . Yet this idea of knowledge based on observation has a complex historical ...
... language that we have used up to now in talking about science is far from neutral in its implication about what is going on . The Problem of Social Realism Collins adopts a realist stance when conceptualizing the activities and beliefs ...
... language she understands , we will take all references to the ' constitutive ' role of science seriously , and regard scientific inquiry as a process of production . Rather than considering scientific products as somehow capturing what ...
... language which treats what is important about description as the abstract relationship between a word , or utterance , and an object . In this tradition , what descriptions do is ' stand for ' something in the world ; and as such what ...
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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 |