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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Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction Jonathan Potter. Contents. Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 Welcome to the fact factory 2 Preparations 6 Precursors 1 1 Overview of the book 1 3 1 Social Studies of Science 17 Traditional ...
... 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.
... social science. To bring out some issues in sociology and ideology, I would like to thank my wife for staying at home and giving me such wonderful support. I can't thank her, however, as I am not married. Margaret Wetherell who was ...
... social sciences more generally. Indeed, I even think there is an element of ... science book (Ashmore, 1989). I hope that erratic, but persistent ... social science writing and fact construction more generally. It is (almost) unashamed of ...
Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction Jonathan Potter. light on murky topics, tracing out a new point of view ... science work on practices of 'making visual' in research settings such as staining cells, graphing animal habitats ...
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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 |