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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... nature can be rigorously demonstrated . However , in their attempts to provide such a demonstration through the ... natural ; it has been built up over a long period of time . For example , Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer ( 1985 20 ...
... nature of scientific belief systems provides an opportunity for a variety of rhetorical devices and techniques of persuasion to be used . The debate is not closed by these rational considerations but by the sorts of strategies that ...
... nature of gravitational radiation , in effect the experiments were negotiations about the nature of the phenomena . Collins expressed this perspective on replication in gravity - wave research in the following manner : the most fruitful ...
... natural world , his need to provide a definitive version of what is going on in the social world forces him to make exactly such judgements concerning scientists ' utterances about the social world . The difficulty with this is in ...
... nature of experimental findings would allow the controversy to drift on and on . Yet although rhetoric is one of his major concepts for understanding social life , he does not explore its senses or develop an elaborate theoretical ...
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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 |