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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... psychologists , linguists and literary analysts . Indeed , the traditional sociology of science , which held sway until the 1970s , now seems striking in its conservatism and its resistance to a thoroughgoing exploration of the social ...
... psychological way of explaining scientific error . Prejudice against a group of researchers may result in the maintenance of a mistaken theory in the face of a correct alternative , or individual ambition may lead a scientist to falsify ...
... psychological research on visual perception , and in particular work showing the sorts of reversals in how one sees an image that take place with visual illusions along with the role of cultural expectations in categorizing what is seen ...
... psychological examples used by Kuhn and others worked as powerful rhetorical counters to the idea that what is seen is determined by the object , or even its image on the retina . The problem with the idea that perception provides a ...
... this work shows how an abstract epistemological concern with the relation between an observation statement and some part of reality has turned into a psychological and sociological concern with the role 24 Representing Reality.
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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 |