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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... treated as factual? That is, how are they made to appear solid, neutral, independent of the speaker, and to be merely mirroring some aspect of the world? How can a factual description be undermined? And what makes a description ...
... treated as a commodity which is worked up, can fluctuate, and can be strengthened or weakened by various procedures of representation. The Anecdotalizer This extract is from a light-hearted article where the author confesses to be a ...
... treated as true and false. As they put it: 'It is our contention, then, that the sociology of knowledge must concern itself with whatever passes for "knowledge" in a society, regardless of the ultimate validity or invalidity (by ...
... treating that discourse as having two rhetorical orientations: an offensive orientation concerned with undermining alternative descriptions and a defensive orientation concerned with resisting discounting. Chapter 4 ends by introducing ...
... treating them as clear-cut constraints, but as symbolic and open-ended resources that have to be interpreted differently according to the context in which they are used (Mulkay, 1976, 1980). Moreover, it is possible to consider ...
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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 |