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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... suggests that a complete constructionist account of fact construction will need to consider both the procedures through which versions are stabilized and made credible and the resources that those procedures draw on . The chapter ...
... suggests that there could never be a crucial experiment , a study which on its own definitively forced the choice between two competing theories ; indeed historical work has suggested that experiments commonly thought of as crucial are ...
... suggests , this will involve groups of scientists changing their theoretical commitments , learning new methods , abandoning favoured and laboriously acquired standard models of problem solving ( ' paradigms ' ) and so on . Kuhn argued ...
... suggests that there are three stages to providing a sociological account of a controversy ( Collins , 1983a ) . The first stage involves documenting the flexible ways in which experimental results can be interpreted . How can particular ...
... suggest that although there may be varied responses to the findings of individual experiments , there can be an orderly and rational response to accumulations of findings from a range of studies . This response depends on the ...
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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 |