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Epistemological Background:Construction and Understanding of Texts

Presenter: Jenny Chen 9722602

Instructor: Dr. Jia-Chi Yan

Date: October 5, 2009

Chapter 7 (p.82-93)

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1. Text and Realities1. Text and Realities

2. Social Constructions as Starting Points2. Social Constructions as Starting Points

3. Text as World Making: First-Degree and Second-Degree Constructions

3. Text as World Making: First-Degree and Second-Degree Constructions

4. World Making in the Text: Mimesis4. World Making in the Text: Mimesis

Contents

5. Mimesis in the Relation of Biography and Narrative

5. Mimesis in the Relation of Biography and Narrative

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Text and Realities

TextRealities

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essential data

basis of interpretations

central medium for presentingand communicating findings

Text

Text and Realities

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Can relation of text and reality be reduced to a simple representation of given facts?

「再現」意指使用語言去說或去呈現某件有意義的事

Social Constructions as Starting Points

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“crisis of representation” 再現危機

It is doubted that social researchers can directly capture lived experience. Such experience, it is now argued, is created in the social text written by the researcher.

文本的再現與真實是一致的嗎 ?

Social Constructions as Starting Points

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“crisis of legitimation” 合法性危機

The classic criteria for assessing research are rejected for qualitative research.

理論與實務脫節

Social Constructions as Starting Points

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Social Constructions as Starting Points

Social Constructivism社會建構主義

Constructionism構成主義

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Social Constructions as Starting Points

探討日常生活中的社會互動意義

人的認知不是被動的；在知識的構成中，人的心智是主動的

Participants through the meanings ascribed to certain events actively produce realities.

社會建構論

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Text as World Making: First-Degree and Second-Degree Constructions

Alfred Schutz :第一位將現象學方法運用於社會現象分析的社會學家

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Text as World Making: First-Degree and Second-Degree Constructions

Social research is an analysis of such ways of world making and the constructive efforts of the participants in their everyday lives.

(Goodman, 1978)

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(Schutz, 1962)

Text as World Making: First-Degree and Second-Degree Constructions

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Text as World Making: First-Degree and Second-Degree Constructions

Everyday perception and knowledge are the basis for social scientists to develop a more formalized and generalized “version of the world”.

(Goodman, 1978)

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Text as World Making: First-Degree and Second-Degree Constructions

ConstructionTexts as versions of

the world

InterpretationUnderstanding,

ascription of meaning

ExperienceNatural and social

environment, events, activities

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World Making in the Text: Mimesis

the transformation of natural worlds into symbolic worlds

“draw the outer world into the inner world”

necessary condition of understanding

Mimesis

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World Making in the Text: Mimesis

(Ricoeur, 1981)

Mimesis 1Mimesis 1 Mimesis 2Mimesis 2 Mimesis 3Mimesis 3

understanding through processes of interpretation

understanding through processes of interpretation

processing experiences of social or natural

environments into texts

processing experiences of social or natural

environments into texts

a preconception of human activity and of

social or natural events

a preconception of human activity and of

social or natural events

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World Making in the Text: Mimesis

ConstructionTexts as versions of

the world

InterpretationUnderstanding,

ascription of meaning

ExperienceNatural and social

environment, events, activities

mimesis3mimesis2

mimesis1

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Mimesis in the Relation of Biography and Narrative

is not a representation of factual processes

mimetic presentation of experiences

provides a framework in which experiences may be located, presented, and evaluated

Biographical Narrative

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Mimesis in the Relation of Biography and Narrative

“Worlds are made from other worlds.”

(Goodman, 1995)

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Mimesis in the Relation of Biography and Narrative

“Mimesis is by nature intermediary, stretched between a symbolically produced world and another one”

(Gebauer and Wulf, 1995)

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