Jonathan Potter

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Full Name	Jonathan Potter
Occupation	Psychologist
Date Of Birth	Jun 8, 1956(1956-06-08)
Age	68
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Ashford
Horoscope	Gemini

Jonathan Potter Biography

Jonathan Potter is one of the most popular and richest Psychologist who was born on June 8, 1956 in Ashford, United Kingdom. Jonathan Potter (born 8 June 1956) is the Dean of the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University and one of the pioneers of the field of discursive psychology.

In 1984, he published Social Texts and Context: Literature and Social Psychology with Margaret Wetherell and Peter Stringer. The publication was published in conjunction with Potter and Wetherell’s PhD research.

He is co-author, with Margaret Wetherell of the influential book Discourse and Social Psychology which is one of the foundational texts that developed a discourse analytic approach to social psychology, a programme now refined into discursive psychology. It offered new ways of conceptualizing fundamental social psychological notions such as attitudes, categories, social representations and rules. It has been cited more than three thousand times in more than a hundred different journals. One of its central achievements was to develop the analytic notion of ‘interpretative repertoires’ from Gilbert and Mulkay’s work on scientific discourse and show how it could be more generally applied to social psychological topics. A joint grant led by Margaret Wetherell resulted in the volume Mapping the Language of Racism in 1992 that focused on the way racism is displayed and legitimated in conversations, newspaper articles and parliamentary debates.

In 1996 he published the book Representing Reality. This was the fruition of a sustained engagement with the sociology of scientific knowledge and other approaches to factuality and provided an overview, extension and critique of social constructionism in social sciences. It developed a discursive version of constructionism in contrast to the more familiar social constructionisms of thinkers such as Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann.

In the event that Margaret Wetherell was appointed to an appointment at St Andrews University in 1980 He moved to Scotland to pursue the PhD in a long- distance. In 1983, he earned his DPhil and began a part-time job that was primarily for teaching statistics within the Psychological Laboratory (as the department was known when it was founded). The statistics taught gave him to have a lot of freedom in his other teaching. He created a course he named Discourse, which taught theories of speech act implicature, semiotics critical linguistics, post-structuralism as well as the study of conversation. The rigorous involvement with this spectrum of thought influenced a lot of his subsequent work.

Jonathan Potter Net Worth

Jonathan Potter is one of the richest Psychologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jonathan Potter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jonathan Potter was born in Ashford, Kent, and spent the majority of his youth within the town of Laughton, East Sussex; his father was a teacher at school while his mother worked as an artist in batik. He attended school in Lewes and later pursued an undergraduate degree at the level of Psychology from the University of Liverpool in 1974 when he was exposed the radical city politics as well as becoming (briefly) fascinated by alternative therapies, and reacted to the conventional British psychoanalytic approach that served as the basis for the Liverpool psychology degree program in the time. He was a fan of the work that was written by John Shotter, Kenneth Gergen and Rom Harre, and was enthralled by the so-called crisis of social psychology. The work he did was crucial and led to him obtaining a master’s in the field of philosophy at the University of Surrey where he studied speech act theory. He also got an initial exposure to post-structuralist thinking and, in particular, works in the work of Roland Barthes. He wrote and read about Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos. The same time philosophy of science was an avenue to the emerging sociology of scientific knowledge , and particularly to the research by Harry Collins, Michael Mulkay and Steve Woolgar.

In 1979, he submitted an application for PhD grant from the University of Bath to work alongside Harry Collins. The university offered him a position however in summer 1979, the offer was cancelled following the announcement that the new Thatcher government cut its budget for social sciences. He was offered working part-time for a PhD alongside Peter Stringer in Psychology at the University of Surrey, while conducting research that looked at the experiences of foreign tourists of the Bath’s bed and Breakfast hotels. At this time, he began to work and live alongside Margaret Wetherell, who was working on her PhD alongside John Turner and was, together with Howard Giles and Henri Tajfel among the most important people within British sociology. He participated in the lively social psychology intellectual culture in Bristol in the early days, even though He was the only voice against the broad experimental focus of the Bristol traditions of so-called European Social Psychology.

At the start of the 1990s, in the book Discursive Psychology, he and Derek Edwards built a specific style of work that is now commonplace in journals across the social sciences as well as indirectly fostering a swathe of non- experimental approaches to social psychology. This took on core notions in cognitive psychology and in particular memory and attribution. Its aim was to show that existing cognitive conceptions of these notions failed to encompass the situated and flexible nature of actual language use and to consider how peoples’ accounts of cognitive processes and events are themselves parts of actions. For example, they reanalysed Ulric Neisser’s classic work on the Watergate testimony showing the way John Dean’s accounts of his excellent memory were used by counsel as parts of building the case against Richard Nixon. It was distinctive from the earlier discourse analytic approach to social psychology in its use of records of natural interaction rather than open ended interviews and its focus on sequential interaction rather than on the identification of interpretative repertoires.

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