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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... role of descriptions and factual accounts is in our lives and what a rich and fascinating topic it is to study. I have deliberately chosen to draw on materials from a wide range of factual descriptions to illustrate the generality of ...
... role of establishing processes of social construction as a central topic of study. A second important feature of the book is its emphasis on taking a 'symmetrical' stance to knowledge that is treated as true and false. As they put it ...
... earlier traditions and some are new. One of its roles is to describe different ways in which the metaphor of construction has been used in linguistics, ethnomethodology and post-structuralism. It suggests 14 Representing Reality.
... role in fact construction. The discussion here concentrates on the way neutrality with respect to a claim may be built up or undermined by various techniques of quoting. In Chapter 6 the general concern is with the procedures that ...
... role of these imperatives is to generate the conditions which allow facts to be produced in a reliable way. Communism requires that knowledge is freely and openly shared; organized scepticism, that all knowledge claims are assessed for ...
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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 |