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 28 筆
... 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 Ethnomethodology and ...
... traditional views of 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 ...
... Traditional Sociology of Science Typically, traditional sociology of science was concerned with two questions. How is science organized as a social institution in such a way that scientists regularly and successfully produce objective ...
... traditional sociology of science, which effectively locked the content of factual knowledge away from the prying eyes of analysts, the new philosophy of science was an invitation to open the box and grapple with the specifics of ...
... traditional ships in bottles that sailors make. After all the glue has dried and the strings have been cut they seem almost magical. There is no easy way of seeing how they came to be made. The advantage of looking at controversies ...
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13 | |
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 |