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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... practices ; ethnomethodology and conversation analysis have come to focus on talk in everyday and institutional settings ; and work in post - structuralism and postmodernism has concentrated on literary and philosophical texts . I have ...
... practices of ' making visual ' in research settings such as staining cells , graphing animal habitats and charting features of the sea bed ( Aman and Knorr Cetina , 1988 ; Atkinson , 1995 ; Lynch , 1985 , 1988 ; Myers , 1990 ; Goodwin ...
... become an important problem when Austin's work is drawn on as the basis for an analytic programme for studying language practices in general and factual language in particular ( for example , see , Duranti Introduction 11.
... practices . For our present purposes it had the important role of establishing processes of social construction as a central topic of study . A second important feature of the book is its emphasis on taking a ' symmetrical ' stance to ...
... practice . The work of Harry Collins and the ' Empirical Relativist Programme ' is discussed in detail , particularly his ... practices through which facts are made , concentrating on the example of suicide statistics . Another important ...
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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 |