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This imaginative and original book challenges the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological `realities are to be discovered underlying appearances. Instead, it claims that such orderly realities are both socially constructed and sustained within the context of peoples disorderly, everyday conversational activities. John Shotters interdisciplinary analysis highlights the socially contested but imaginary nature of many of the `things we talk about in social life and illuminates the processes of their construction. He offers a broad-ranging exploration of the rhetorical, argumentative nature of conversational communication, using examples from psychotherapy, management and everyday
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This series is designed to facilitate, across discipline and national boundaries, an emergent dialogue within the social sciences which many believe presages a major shift in the western intellectual tradition.
Including among its participants sociologists of science, psychologists, management and communications theorists, cyberneticists, ethnomethodologists, literary theorists, feminists and social historians, it is a dialogue which involves profound challenges to many existing ideas about, for example, the person, selfhood, scientific method and the nature of scientific and everyday knowledge.
It has also given voice to a range of new topics, such as the social construction of personal identities; the role of power in the social making of meanings; rhetoric and narrative in establishing sciences; the centrality of everyday activities; remembering and forgetting as socially constituted activities; reflexivity in method and theorizing. The common thread underlying all these topics is a concern with the processes by which human abilities, experiences, commonsense and scientific knowledge are both produced in, and reproduce, human communities.
Inquiries in Social Construction affords a vehicle for exploring this new consciousness, the problems raised and the implications for society.
Also in this series
Therapy as Social Construction edited by Sheila McNamee and Kenneth J. Gergen
Psychology and Postmodernism edited by Steinar Kvale
Constructing the Social edited by Theodore Sarbin and John Kitsuse
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Conversational Realities
Constructing Life through Language
John Shotter
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John Shotter 1993
First published 1993
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers.
SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU
SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash I New Delhi 110 048
British Library Cataloguing in publication data
Shotter, John Conversational Realities: Constructing Life Through Language. (Inquiries in Social Construction Series] I. Title II. Series 306.4
ISBN 0-8039-8932-6 ISBN 0-8039-8933-4 (pbk)
Library of Congress catalog card number 93-085177
Typeset by Megaron, Cardiff, Wales Printed in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, Guildford, Surrey
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CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgements
vi
Introduction: A RhetoricalResponsive Version of Social Constructionism
1
Part I: A RhetoricalResponsive Version of Social Constructionism
1 The Conversational Background of Social Life: Beyond Representationalism
17
2 Situating Social Constructionism: Knowing 'from Within'
33
3 Dialogue and Rhetoric in the Construction of Social Relations
50
Part II: Realism, the Imaginary, and a World of Events
4 The Limits of Realism
65
5 Social Life and the Imaginary
79
6 Linguistic Relativity in a World of Events
99
Part III: Conversational Realities
7 In Search of a Past: Therapeutic Re-authoring
118
8 Real and Counterfeit Constructions in Interpersonal Relations
132
9 The Manager as a Practical Author: Conversations for Action
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