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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... metaphor for the topic of this book . Like money on the international markets , truth can be treated as a commodity which is worked up , can fluctuate , and can be strengthened or weakened by various procedures of representation . The ...
... generally . It is ( almost ) unashamed of drawing on the kinds of visual metaphors that imbue recent western writing about knowledge : it is concerned with throwing light on murky topics , tracing out a new point Introduction 9.
... Some of these derive from the earlier traditions and some are new . One of its roles is to describe different ways in which the metaphor of construction has been used in linguistics , ethnomethodology and post - 14 Representing Reality.
... 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 pedigree . Its self - evidence to us now is not something natural ...
... metaphor , often elaborated as the Quine - Duhem thesis ( 1961 ; see also Hesse , 1974 ; Quine and Ullian , 1970 ) . Quine suggested that scientific beliefs should be regarded as stretched in a fabric , rather like the skin of a drum ...
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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 |