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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... participants count as factual rather than what is actually factual . The term description can refer to both action and object : on the one hand , it is ' the action of setting forth in words by mentioning recognizable features or ...
... participants ( a tempting but unlikely claim ! ) or simply to treat the beliefs of whoever is currently successful as right . That would mean that the social analyst would be forever providing a sociological gloss on the current ...
... participants ' understanding of what is involved in gravity physics . He learns what is involved in being a member of this community , albeit somewhat vicariously , and then uses this developing understanding to guide his analysis ...
... participants . As studies of this kind are showing the flexibility in the interpretation of experimental findings , and the rhetorical means through which disputes are closed down , they can be drawn on by the participants on the weaker ...
... participants as ' true ' or ' false ' . Truth and falsity can be studied as moves in a rhetorical game , and will be treated as such rather than as prior resources governing analysis , to avoid subordinating the analyst to a current 40 ...
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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 |