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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... role of these imperatives is to generate the conditions which allow facts to be produced in a reliable way . Communism requires that knowledge is freely and openly shared ; organized scepticism , that all knowledge claims are assessed ...
... role as being to show how this special nature can be rigorously demonstrated . However , in their attempts to provide such a demonstration through the detailed exploration of classic scientific episodes , philosophers and historians ...
... role of cultural expectations in categorizing what is seen . We are all familiar with line drawings that can be seen as either a duck or a rabbit , or as either the top or bottom of a set of steps . Here the visual experience changes ...
... role of experience into a famous metaphor , often elaborated as the Quine - Duhem thesis ( 1961 ; see also Hesse , 1974 ; Quine and Ullian , 1970 ) . Quine suggested that scientific beliefs should be regarded as stretched in a fabric ...
... work shows how an abstract epistemological concern with the relation between an observation statement and some part of reality has turned into a psychological and sociological concern with the role 24 Representing Reality.
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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 |