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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... stories given that condition . Some of the issues raised are addressed through a discussion of David Byrne's movie True Stories . Chapter 4 provides a transition from the reviewing and systematizing in the first three chapters to the ...
... the business of a description is done through its categorization ; different categories imply different stories of motive and responsibility and have different implications for what should come next . At the same Introduction 15.
... stories have been told about the origins of science which are strikingly different from Merton's ( Shapin and Schaffer , 1985 ; Latour , 1993 ) . The major point of interest for us is the way in which the problem of fact production was ...
... the benefit of hindsight , we can see that these sociologists embraced scientists ' own stories about the distinctive and privileged nature of their knowledge and were led to focus their attention on Social Studies of Science 19.
... stories as congenial and as self - evident as Merton . Philosophers have been primarily concerned with the justification of scientific knowledge ; while historians have been traditionally interested in the thoughts and procedures that ...
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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 |