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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... focus is on the way people construct descriptions as factual , and how others undermine those constructions . This does not require an answer to the philosophical question of what factuality is . Nevertheless , this approach cannot fail ...
... focused on : sociology of scientific knowledge obviously deals with scientific practices ; ethnomethodology and conversation analysis have come to focus on talk in everyday and institutional settings ; and work in post - structuralism ...
... focused on the phenomenology of individuals ' experience . That is , rather than see processes of construction at ... focus of my attention to the reality of everyday life . What is ' here and now ' presented to me in everyday life is ...
... focus on the way it has conceptualized accounts as a structural element in particular kinds of interaction . This provides a developed research example where one class of descriptions ( accounts ) can be understood as performing a ...
... focus on the use of empiricist discourse ( impersonal constructions characteristic of science and some news ... focused on their action orientation . As this is such a huge topic I restrict coverage to three themes . The chapter ...
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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 |