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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... descriptions are made factual , and what those descriptions are used to do . However , the words fact and description ( and related terms such as report and account ) have a complex history , and their current sense is only the start ...
... description . There is a lot of circularity . However , the contrast that I want to pick out is the way fact implies truth and real occurrence while description does not . This book covers the interactional space between these two ...
... descriptions are organized to make some version seem credible and objective . This also is a book full of descriptions ( of theory , of disciplines , of literatures , of findings , of bodies of belief , and so on ) . It is a book , then ...
... descriptions and a defensive orientation concerned with resisting discounting . Chapter 4 ends by introducing a distinction between the action orientation of descriptions ( what the description is doing ) and the epistemological ...
... descriptions can have important consequences . Finally , the chapter explores the broader implications of these arguments for politics and practice , highlighting tensions between different kinds of criticism and the reflexive ...
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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 |