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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... understanding language has been effectively criticized by Jacques Derrida in a series of arguments discussed in Chapter 3. Another problem lies with Austin's treatment of statements as actions. This is a radical first step in the study ...
... understanding: The reality of everyday life is organized around the 'here' of my body and the 'now' of my present. This 'here and now' is the focus of my attention to the reality of everyday life. What is 'here and now' presented to me ...
... understanding has been redefined more than once. Chapter 3 introduces the basic ideas of semiology with a discussion of Ferdinand de Saussure's foundational work and some of Roland Barthes's later refinements to the approach. A range of ...
... understanding group processes and psychodynamics to understand how false belief came about. This set of assumptions has been most effectively identified and criticized by the sociologist David Bloor (1991). In effect, then, the ...
... understanding facts has been to think of them as observations of how the world is. Do I see a table there or not ... understanding of their current practice, that it is difficult indeed to resist viewing it as self- evident. Indeed, both ...
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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 |