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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... interest theory . As well as being important players in contemporary SSK , they will allow us to address further central issues that are involved in the study of fact construction . Constructionist and Interest Theories of Scientific ...
... interests . Put simply , perhaps rather too simply , these researchers suggested that scientists are making certain claims about reality because it is in their interest to make those claims . Some of these interests may be a product of ...
... interest is the emphasis it places on the role of scientists ' background culture and broader social allegiances - their group memberships and political viewpoints . And it is this aspect of the approach which I will concentrate on here ...
... Interest theory has made an important contribution to SSK and has stimulated a number of fascinating case studies of scientific episodes . However , it raises some of the same issues that we noted above with respect to constructionism ...
... Interest theory reconnects scientists to their broader social allegiances by suggesting that their choice of theory is related to their understanding of society . Three theoretical and analytic themes will be taken forward into later ...
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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 |