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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... factual versions. Although this phrase was used as part of a distinction between lying and giving a misleading impression by withholding information (Sir Robert later claimed to have been drawing on 4 Representing Reality.
... distinction between falsehood and delusion' and 'economy of truth'), it was widely taken as a softened admission of lying. Indeed, since then 'economical with the truth' has become a popular pejorative phrase for certain kinds of ...
... distinction between two classes of utterances. On the one hand, there are utterances that state things: 'Loughborough is in the middle of England'; on the other, there are utterances that do things: 'I bet you five pounds that Labour ...
... distinctions that need to be made, in research on fact construction. Some of these derive from the earlier traditions and some are new. One of its roles is to describe different ways in which the metaphor of construction has been used ...
... distinction between the action orientation of descriptions (what the description is doing) and the epis- temological orientation of descriptions (how the description attends to its own factuality). It is also intended to serve as a ...
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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 |