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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... detail or general formulations ( rich detail can be used to sustain the category entitlement ' witness ' , general formulations can be used to resist easy rebuttal ) . In each case the emphasis will be on the way they can be worked up ...
... detail in the following three chapters . This could be read as an introduction to what comes later and stands as a relatively compact summary of the perspective on fact construction developed in the book . Chapters 5 and 6 concentrate ...
... detail involved in the study of fact making . In fact , we can start to see that much of the descriptive language that we have used up to now in talking about science is far from neutral in its implication about what is going on . The ...
... detail in Chapter 4. Collins was led to work in this way by the demands of producing a realist version from the competing and fragmentary texts at his disposal . This also leads him into difficulties sustaining his relativist stance ...
... detail , with respect to the empirical programme of relativism ( see also Woolgar , 1981 ; Yearley , 1982 ) . It represents another attempt to develop a realist version of a particular arena of scientific work ; indeed , it is even more ...
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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 |