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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... how those descriptions are involved in actions . This combines a detailed discussion of a range of relevant research on fact construction - some derived from the traditions reviewed earlier , some with more disparate Introduction.
... range of factual descriptions to illustrate the generality of the 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 ...
... range of different purposes . For example , one of the materials which will be used in several chapters below is taken from a relationship counselling session in which a couple each gives versions of an evening where the woman may have ...
... range of different actions : complimenting , complaining , inviting , blaming and so on . Showing that statements are actions is just the preliminary ; what comes next is an examination of the many different actions that statements can ...
... range of challenges to it from philosophers . These challenges reconceptualized the nature of observation , stressed the interconnected nature of scientific claims , and emphasized the importance of scientific community and Introduction 13.
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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 |