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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... produce them as neutral and external ; that is , to give them a quality of out - there - ness . There are a range of these procedures , or externalizing devices . I focus on the use of empiricist discourse ( impersonal constructions ...
... produce facts which are in some way problematic , then what hope for barristers , newspaper reporters or ' ordinary people " ? This argument makes many assumptions and can easily be viewed as a piece of rather transparent rhetoric used ...
... produced in a reliable way . Communism requires that knowledge is freely and openly shared ; organized scepticism ... produce such things . In what has often been called a storybook ( Mitroff , 1974 ) view of science , scientific ...
... produced by the use of a range of different rhetorical strategies . According to Collins , the critical actor in the controversy was a scientist he called Quest ( the pseudonym is to protect his anonymity ) . Quest was instrumental in ...
... produce a unitary and realist version of what is happening in the social worlds of ' gravity - wave scientists ' . To understand these problems better it is necessary briefly to consider Collins ' analytic method . Although the gravity ...
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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 |