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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... utterances . On the one hand , there are utterances that state things : ' Loughborough is in the middle of England ' ; on the other , there are utterances that do things : ' I bet you five pounds that Labour win the election . ' But in ...
... utterance determined by fiat . This approach will be discussed more in Chapter 2. Austin's emphasis on idealized cases as the best start point for understanding language has been effectively criticized by Jacques Derrida in a series of ...
... utterances or some form of written discourse . Even at its simplest this involves some form of categorization ; it is not just seeing what is before the eyes but seeing it as something ; not just a particular colour sensation but a ...
... utterances about the natural world , his need to provide a definitive version of what is going on in the social world forces him to make exactly such judgements concerning scientists ' utterances about the social world . The difficulty ...
... utterance , and an object . In this tradition , what descriptions do is ' stand for ' something in the world ; and as such what it treats as interesting about descriptions is the quality of their ' standing in ' : are they accurate ...
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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 |