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. |
搜尋書籍內容
第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 84 筆
... arguments. More generally, the notion of an economy of truth serves as an appropriate metaphor for the topic of this book. Like money on the international markets, truth can be treated as a commodity which is worked up, can fluctuate ...
... argue that issues involving the construction of versions are endemic in conversation. People package their lives into narratives which they tell for a whole range of different purposes. For example, one of the materials which will be ...
... arguing directly with realism, the sorts of rhetorical devices that are used to shore up a realist position have ... argument ('see this [bangs on table); you're not telling me that's a social construction') and the death argument ('what ...
... argue that to understand the way factual accounts are constructed, and the way they are bound up with activities, it ... arguments about specificity I 8 Representing Reality.
... arguments about specificity I have just noted, this kind of detail needs to be recognized as an intrinsic part of a good transcript. The transcribed detail is not just an empiricist flourish to demonstrate completeness or ...
內容
6 | |
13 | |
42 | |
Semiology Poststructuralism Postmodernism | 68 |
Discourse and Construction | 97 |
Interests and Category Entitlements | 122 |
Constructing Outthereness | 150 |
Working up Representations | 176 |
Criticizing Facts | 202 |
Appendix | 233 |
Index | 248 |