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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... treated as a straightforward term of abuse : someone has ' fallen into ' a relativist position ; the ' spectre of relativism ' has to be avoided ( Edwards et al . , 1995 ; Smith , 1988 ) . Collins wanted to rescue the notion from its ...
... treat replications claiming to find them as competent and replications failing to find them as incompetent . Mirroring this , those scientists who did not believe gravity waves were measurable thought that the replications which did not ...
... treat the beliefs of whoever is currently successful as right . That would mean that the social analyst would be forever providing a sociological gloss on the current scientific status quo ; that is , they would be repeating the ...
... treat the category realistically . However , the category can also be treated as a construction ; that is , as a category that different scientists use with different boundaries , say , and as part of different activities . Some ...
... treated as asymmetrical by the participants . As studies of this kind are showing the flexibility in the interpretation of experimental findings , and the rhetorical means through which disputes are closed down , they can be drawn on by ...
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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 |