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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... 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 on the way people construct descriptions as ...
... philosophical question of free will , John Austin ( 1961 ) suggested it might be more constructive to consider the way people account for freedom and constraint . Rather than arguing directly with realism , the sorts of rhetorical ...
... philosophical texts . I have opted for a comparative approach at both the level of theory and material . Transcription A number of the chapters below discuss examples of transcribed talk . Most use the increasingly standard system of ...
... philosophical project was an attack on views of 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 ...
... philosophers and scientists . The chapter describes traditional sociology of science , and a range of challenges to it from philosophers . These challenges reconceptualized the nature of observation , stressed the interconnected nature ...
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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 |