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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... scientists themselves . In fact , what might have seemed at first sight to be an unnecessary and even rather eccentric start point for social research quickly comes to seem sensible and , indeed , indispensable . The value of ...
... scientists ' group allegiances and , ultimately , the broader societal context . For the moment it will be useful to move away from these rather abstract and programmatic claims and illustrate what they add up to when Collins researches ...
... scientists attempted to find gravitational radiation using similar apparatus . None of them found success . Collins examined the published papers and disputes between these scientists as well as interviewing a number of the key figures ...
... scientists to disbelieve Weber's claims . The incredibility of these claims had to be socially produced by the use of a range of different rhetorical strategies . According to Collins , the critical actor in the controversy was a scientist ...
... scientists . His scientific world is furnished with individual scientists ; these scientists have specific beliefs and are organized into collectivities within which there are controversies with sides ; they may be persuaded by rhetoric ...
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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 |