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- Title
UNCOVERING "CULTURAL MEANING": PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS.
- Authors
Jones, Todd
- Abstract
In his highly influential The Interpretation of Cultures, anthropologist Clifford Geertz argues that the study of culture ought to be "not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning." I argue that the two need not be opposed. The best way of making sense of the social scientific practice of looking at meaning is to see interpretivists as looking at typical mental reactions that people in a given culture have to certain acts and artifacts. I argue that scientific theories of the mental--rather than minimalist--theories are needed for this practice to be successful.
- Subjects
GEERTZ, Clifford, 1926-2006; SOCIAL sciences; CULTURAL education; COGNITION
- Publication
Behavior & Philosophy, 2004, Vol 32, Issue 2, p247
- ISSN
1053-8348
- Publication type
Article