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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... Constructionist and interest theories of scientific fact making 34 Realism, relativism and rhetoric 40 2 Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis 42 Ethnomelhodology 43 Pollner and mundane reason 53 Conversation analysis 57 ...
... Facts, speech acts and constructionism 202 Social science and fact construction 206 Criticizing facts 218 Appendix 233 References 235 Index 248 Acknowledgements This is the first description in a book about viii Contents.
... constructionist position developed in this book, most notably the furniture argument ('see this [bangs on table); you're not telling me that's a social construction') and the death argument ('what about the victims of the Holocaust, the ...
... constructionist argument can be pushed (Derrida, 1982; Rorty, 1980). Omissions As I will discuss in detail later on, academic writing tends to draw on textual forms - tropes - which construct a god-like, all-seeing, all-knowing, all ...
... constructionism is a rather limited affair. Although they spend a lot of time considering the various assumptions that a garage mechanic, for example, makes about his' world and its nature, they themselves can see round the edges of ...
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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 |