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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... sorts of psychological examples used by Kuhn and others worked as powerful rhetorical counters to the idea that what is seen is determined by the object , or even its image on the retina . The problem with the idea that perception ...
... sorts of tangles that we can easily get into as we attempt to make unproblematic judgements about scientific truth and falsity . It is worth briefly noting some of these difficulties before we proceed . In many of the most exciting ...
... sorts of ways in which tensions in the network introduced by novel findings can be reduced . The second stage focuses on the way this open - endedness is dealt with so that one particular outcome results . How , ultimately , is the ...
... sort of convinced everybody . ( All from Collins , 1985 : 92 ) Collins ' general conclusion is that , although there were a variety of findings and studies that went against Weber , it was not these that were crucial ; it was the manner ...
... sorts of judgements separate . For example , Collins claimed that the technical arguments against Weber's ... sort of version that Weber could use in defence of his position ; he might say : ' They have not shown me to be wrong ...
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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 |