Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction
SAGE, 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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I have opted for a comparative approach at both the level of theory and material.
Transcription A number of the chapters below discuss examples of transcribed
talk. Most use the increasingly standard system of transcription developed by the
The second limitation is in the failure to address seriously the Actor Network
Theory developed by Bruno Latour, Michel Calion and John Law (for example,
Calion, 1995; Latour, 1993; Law, 1994). This is an exciting approach to facts and
... there are utterances that do things: 'I bet you five pounds that Labour win the
election.' But in the course of a brilliantly argued set of lectures he showed that
the distinction could not be sustained. He proposed a general theory of speech
This can be seen as a subclass of one of the classic problems with speech act
theory, that of indirection. Speech act theorists have struggled to account
successfully for one of the most pervasive phenomena in language use which is,
to put it ...
Prejudice against a group of researchers may result in the maintenance of a
mistaken theory in the face of a correct alternative, or individual ambition may
lead a scientist to falsify findings to fit into a desired model. What is interesting
here is ...
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7 Working Up Representations
8 Criticizing Facts