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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... sense of a stable and agreed underlying reality . Conversation analysis is introduced with a focus on the way it has conceptualized accounts as a structural element in particular kinds of interaction . This provides a developed research ...
... sense ' , our categories are not some neutral and abstract set of descriptive pigeon - holes ; they are derived from theories and broad cosmologies . Philosophers such as Mary Hesse ( 1974 ) have argued that scientists work with ...
... sense understanding of the relevant categories , objects and processes . This is an important point , so it is worth spelling out carefully what is being suggested . Take categories of scientists , for example . It is possible to take a ...
... senses or develop an elaborate theoretical account of the notion . When he provides examples of rhetoric they are often in the form of rhetoric attributions . That is , he gives examples of people claiming that such and such an ...
... sense for us as analysts to treat both gravity waves and social processes equally as constructions . Oh , and there is another construction here , of course . It would be very odd , to say the least , for me to expend this effort in ...
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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 |