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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... questions I am raising . At the same time , many of the examples should be familiar to most readers ( for example , newspaper reports and relationship disputes ) which I hope will make the points more accessible as well highlighting ...
... question is rather one of being economical with the truth . This example illustrates a number of relevant themes . Note first that the phrase was produced as a response to cross examination . That is , it is part of the interaction , it ...
... questions about what sorts of things exist . The focus is on the way people construct descriptions as factual , and how others undermine those constructions . This does not require an answer to the philosophical question of what ...
Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction Jonathan Potter. questions as issues which can be addressed through a consideration of people's discourse . For example , rather than trying to solve the philosophical question of free will ...
... question about abilities , we are making a request for the salt to be passed ; while if we are making an offer we often couch it as a request : ' have a drink ' . As we will see , statements are a more or less indirect way of performing ...
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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 |