Papers by Jonathan Potter
The British Journal of Social Psychology the British Psychological Society, Dec 1, 2003
Attitudes and evaluative practices: category vs. item and subjective vs. objective constructions ... more Attitudes and evaluative practices: category vs. item and subjective vs. objective constructions in everyday food assessments
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This paper highlights some of the issues that arise when focusing on inequality (and similar noti... more This paper highlights some of the issues that arise when focusing on inequality (and similar notions) as participants' concerns. It emphasises the value of understanding constructions of inequality in terms of how they are (a) oriented to action; (b) situated (sequentially, institutionally, rhetorically); and (c) constructed from discursive resources and constructive of social and mental worlds. These points are illustrated with an example from a call to a child protection helpline. This illustrates how a particular description of inequality can be oriented to action, constructed and situated. This is the basis for some more general observations on the nature of inequality as an object in interaction.
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Text, 1989
Résumé/Abstract This paper reports a discourse analytic study which forms part of a larger projec... more Résumé/Abstract This paper reports a discourse analytic study which forms part of a larger project concerned with the way white majority group members in New Zealand make sense of race and «race relations». Its focus is on accounts of educational inequality and criticisms of positive discrimination programmes. The analysis documents (a) the way talk on these topics is produced using pre-existing resources (the «togetherness repertoire» and the «meritocratic model of education»);(b) the way it subtly orientates to pragmatic constraints ...
Text Interdisciplinary Journal For the Study of Discourse, Jun 10, 1988
Psychological Review, 1993
Everyday explanations of human actions have largely been studied as matters of perception and cog... more Everyday explanations of human actions have largely been studied as matters of perception and cognition, of how people make sense of events, such that language features as part of method, for presenting descriptions of events, and obtaining judgments about causality.
Identities Glob Stud Cult Pow, Apr 1, 1995
All the papers in this Special Issue have as their central theme struggles for power and response... more All the papers in this Special Issue have as their central theme struggles for power and responses to difference. They analyze the storms of words that play around these struggles and come to constitute rituals of domination and resistance. The focus is on concepts of culture and multiculturalism and, to a lesser extent, on race and nation. We can see how in the USA, in Canada and in Israel culture and multiculturalism have become critical" nodal points," to use Laclau and Mouffe's (1985) term. Patterns of meaning have become ...
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2008
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Papers by Jonathan Potter