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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... speaker , and to be merely mirroring some aspect of the world ? How can a factual description be undermined ? And what makes a description difficult to undermine ? Second , how are these factual descriptions put together in ways that ...
... speaker had been lying . The simple point here is that people do not produce descriptions out of the blue ; they produce them for what they can do in some stream of activity . Sir Robert's claim should not be understood as an abstract ...
... speaker's interest in their description is one major procedure for discounting it . The discussion focuses on a range of different ways in which writers and speakers resist such discounting . Categories of persons are often closely ...
... speaker focusing on the effect of Quest's work on other scientists . These scientists do not characterize themselves ... speakers can give an accurate account , not only of the influence of Quest's work on a large number of other ...
... speaker although the same words were used , a different tummy would have been referred to ( or ' indexed ' - hence ... speakers and potential listeners . Put simply , the basic point is that it is the combination of words and context ...
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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 |