‘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