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 6 到 10 筆結果,共 89 筆
... chapters that follow , I discuss scientific discourse , newspaper articles of various kinds , a couple's relationship counselling sessions , novels and films , everyday talk and talk amongst documentary film makers . My use of this wide ...
... chapter on images or visual rhetoric . The fact that it does not is not because I do not think this is an important topic – I do ; it is because the book has grown and was already in danger of becoming unwieldy . This chapter was the ...
... Chapter 2. Austin's emphasis on idealized cases as the best start point for understanding language has been effectively criticized by Jacques Derrida in a series of arguments discussed in Chapter 3 . Another problem lies with Austin's ...
... chapters in the book cover the main traditions of work involved in fact construction . Chapter 1 covers the sociology of scientific knowledge which exploded , especially in Britain , in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s ...
... chapter highlights the value of taking a relativist perspective which starts without preconceptions about what facts are true , and illustrates some of the ways in which rhetoric is both emphasized and underplayed in sociology of ...
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3 Semiology PostStructuralism Postmodernism | 68 |
4 Discourse and Construction | 97 |
5 Interests and Category Entitlements | 122 |
6 Constructing OutThereNess | 150 |
7 Working Up Representations | 176 |
8 Criticizing Facts | 202 |
Appendix | 233 |
References | 235 |
Index | 248 |