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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... Collins and the ' Empirical Relativist Programme ' is discussed in detail , particularly his studies of the social construction and destruction of replication , along with ' constructionist ' and ' interest ' theories of scientific ...
... ( Collins , 1985 ) . If even white - coated scientists , with all their training and technical back - up , produce facts which are in some way problematic , then what hope for barristers , newspaper reporters or ' ordinary people " ? This ...
... ( Collins and Pinch , 1993 ) . The general consequence is to undermine the idea that observation provides a conclusive foundation for knowledge . At the same time it provides a novel pragmatic emphasis on issues like the coherence of one ...
... Collins ' work because it raises effectively many of the fundamental issues in SSK , as well as providing some powerful examples of this position in analytic practice . The Empirical Relativist Programme The clearest way to introduce ...
... Collins has focused much of his research on scientific fields in which there is ongoing controversy . This has two benefits . First , in controversies the rules and competencies that underlie science are thrown into question and may ...
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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 |