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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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 38 筆
... Science 17 Traditional sociology of science 1 7 Philosophy and scientific facts 20 Sociology of scientific knowledge 25 Constructionist and interest theories of scientific fact making 34 Realism, relativism and rhetoric 40 2 ...
... 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 originally ...
... sociology of science work on practices of 'making visual' in research settings such as staining cells, graphing animal habitats and charting features of the sea bed (Aman and Knorr Cetina. 1988; Atkinson, 1995; Lynch, 1985, 1988; Myers ...
... scientific facts and is still a site for heated debate between sociologists, philosophers and scientists. The chapter describes traditional sociology of science, and a range of challenges to it from philosophers. These challenges ...
... scientific community and practice. The work of Harry Collins and the 'Empirical Relativist Programme' is discussed in ... sociology of science. Chapter 2 takes ethnomethodology and conversation analysis as its topic. Stimulated by the ...
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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 |