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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... contrast to the traditional sociology of science , which focused on the social conditions or norms that enable the generation of true knowledge , and on the way particular social or psychological factors such as prejudices and personal ...
... contrast to parts of the standard or storybook view which treats science as producing increasingly accurate and powerful descriptions of an external reality . Knorr Cetina expressed this contrast as follows : Rather than view empirical ...
... contrast with the storybook view that scientists ' decisions are governed in a mechanical or simple manner by the outcome of experiments , observations , replications and so on . Just as Collins argued that what counts as a competent ...
... contrast to Collins who , in his work on controversies , sees the end of a controversy as the moment when a fact is finally stabilized ; that is , when the last strings are pulled out of the bottle , the glue is set and the ship is ...
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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 |