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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... of accounts of paranormal experiences . Chapter 8 ends the book by raising the broader questions of constructionism , social science representation and criticism . 1 Social Studies of Science If we are asked to 16 Representing Reality.
... questions . How is science organized as a social institution in such a way that scientists regularly and successfully produce objective facts ? And , conversely , what distorting social factors might result in the production of ...
... questions was Robert Merton ( 1970 , 1973 ) . I will take his solutions in turn . Norms and the Scientific Ethos Merton wanted to understand the way particular social conditions paved the way for the emergence of modern science . He ...
... question right at the heart of this current book . How are descriptions made to seem literal and factual ? In this case , how can scientists describe their individual activities in a way that presents them as following from the ...
... question . Practices of observation in the sorts of settings that scientists actually work in are much more complex than these simple , isolated visual exposures imply ( for example , Goodwin , 1995 ; Lynch and Woolgar , 1990 ; Knorr ...
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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 |