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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... concern as particular versions of the economy are assembled and undermined. Descriptions are so bound up with our ... concerned with two closely related sets of questions. First, how are descriptions produced so they will be treated as ...
... concern with factual accuracy. People in their everyday talk tell stories to one another; they construct narratives - anecdotes - to make points, for entertainment and laughter. In the continuation of the article the writer tells a ...
... concerns, and I have retained transcription symbols and information unless it is a major handicap to the ... concerned with throwing light on murky topics, tracing out a new point of Introduction 9.
... concern itself with whatever passes for "knowledge" in a society, regardless of the ultimate validity or invalidity (by whatever criteria) of such "knowledge"' (1966: 15). As we will see in Chapter 1 when discussing the sociology of ...
... concerned with undermining alternative descriptions and a defensive orientation concerned with resisting discounting ... concern is with the procedures that people use to separate descriptions from their own interests and produce them as ...
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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 |