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Hace 2 días · Of particular interest to us here is the work of Clifford Geertz (1973, 1988), as the line of thinking perhaps closest in many of its assumptions and approach to those of a Gestalt perspective on culture. For Geertz, culture is to be understood first of all as a shared system of communicated meanings.
Hace 1 día · Clifford Geertz, “Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States, in Old Societies and New States,” in The Quest for Modernity in Asia and Africa, ed. Clifford Geertz (New York: Free Press, 1963), 108.
Hace 2 días · These Italian-American intellectuals produced “thick descriptions” (in Clifford Geertz's sense) of what their people already knew—of the reciprocal interplay between the family and capitalism, of the special role of a de facto matriarchy in ethnic change, and of masculine peer groups in developing street-corner societies, organizing crime, and taking over the labor unions.
Hace 2 días · In the his book, The Interpretation of Cultures (1966/73), Clifford Geertz defined religion as ‘a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive and long-lasting moods and motivations in people by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality ...
Hace 2 días · En este sentido, el núcleo de nuestra agenda intelectual funciona como un paraguas epistemológico más amplio que abarca tanto cuestiones de método (cómo recopilar y analizar datos) como de teoría (cómo explicar la variación en los resultados), lo cual nos lleva a refigurar –parafraseando a Clifford Geertz– “qué es lo que queremos saber”.
Hace 14 horas · Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism.Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in sociology in the 20th century. After earning a PhD in economics, he served on the faculty at Harvard University from 1927 to 1973.
Hace 14 horas · Chacun connaît les réflexions de l’anthropologie et les travaux de Clifford Geertz sur les savoirs locaux. C’est plus largement le cas de toutes les sciences sociales qui ont été amenées à prendre en charge les études post-coloniales qui se déploient depuis les travaux d’Edward Saïd.
