Representing Reality by Jonathan Potter
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. This work offers a tour of the central themes raised by these questions.
`Since the publication of Potter & Wetherell′s influential Discourse and Social Psychology, which laid the ground-plan for their version of discourse analysis, work has continued apace.. As a progress report, the present text provides a valuable up-date, summarizing the main lines of development and usefully pulling together material heretofore only available from a disparate range of sources... As an introduction to this type of analysis, 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
`Potter leaves the reader wanting more-which is a pretty good place to leave a reader′ - Language in Society
Jonathan Potter is Professor of Discourse Analysis and Dean of the School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences at Loughborough University. He has studied topics such as scientific argumentation, current affairs television, riots, racism, relationship counselling and child protection helplines. His main focus recently has been on the study of helpline interaction, on interaction during family mealtimes, on the conceptualization of cognition in interaction research, and on issues of psychology and institutions. He a world authority on qualitative methods and has written on discourse analysis and discursive psychology, focus groups, the study of psychological issues. Recently has raised questions about the over-reliance of social scientists on open-ended qualitative interviews. He has taught workshops and short courses on analysis in 10 different countries.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780803984110 |
| ISBN 10 | 0803984111 |
| Title | Representing Reality |
| Author | Jonathan Potter |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 1996-08-13 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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