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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... particular versions of the economy are assembled and undermined . Descriptions are so bound up with our lives that virtually any conversation includes reports of events and actions . We read newspapers and watch television programmes ...
... particular , a set of themes in the construction of facts are identified and illustrated with sample analyses . My hope is that these will both provide an organizing framework for making sense of the different studies and highlight some ...
... particular I am not trying to resolve classic philosophical disputes between , say , advocates of realism and anti - realism . And I am certainly not trying to answer ontological questions about what sorts of things exist . The focus is ...
... 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 in this book is attributional rather than actual . That is ...
... particular communities , constrained by their grasp ( or lack of grasp ) of bodies of ideas , by the quality of their libraries and so on . Writing is full of serendipity and is inseparable from academic biography . Even noting this can ...
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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 |