| Theda Skocpol - 1984 - 430 pages
...recognizes that thick description is very different from mere description. Thick description is "really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to." 4 * He also knows that interpretive theory goes beyond description to state "as explicitly as we can... | |
| Sue E. Estroff - 1985 - 372 pages
...those. In finished anthropological writings . . . this fact —that what we call our data are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to —is obscured because most of what we need to comprehend a particular event, ritual, custom, idea,... | |
| Elliot Eisner, Elliot W. Eisner - 1985 - 322 pages
...trained in the modes of knowing, have inquired into schooling, and have written "our own construction of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to."2 This leaves us with the unsettling sense of living with two conflicting perspectives. When we... | |
| Lawrence A. Hoffman - 1989 - 228 pages
...action; it is now a construction of a construction. Geertz concludes, "What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. ... Analysis, then, is sorting out the structures of signification." 31 What should interest us, therefore... | |
| Michael Moerman - 1988 - 232 pages
...another — what they are up to, and what they made of it, utterance by utterance. We need not rely on "our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to" as "our data (Geertz 1973:9. emphasis added). We need not "begin with our own interpretations of what... | |
| Chandra Mukerji, Michael Schudson - 1991 - 514 pages
...entirely. As Clifford Geertz reminded ethnographic anthropologists, "What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. Cultural analysis," he concludes, "is . . . guessing at meanings, assessing the guesses, and drawing... | |
| Peter J. Frost - 1991 - 414 pages
...social process involves getting inside the world of those generating it, constructing an interpretation of 'other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to" (Geertz, l973, p. 9). Nuance and uniqueness are as important in this endeavor as is normally frequent... | |
| David A. Snow, Leon Anderson - 1993 - 412 pages
...ethnographic writing. "What we call our data," as Geertz (1973: 9), among others, has noted, "are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to." 103. See Agar (1986: 17-19) for an elaboration of this conception of ethnography. CHAPTER TWO 1. Social... | |
| Laurie Shrage - 1994 - 250 pages
...discourse in the social world they inhabit. According to Geertz, "What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to . . ,"12 Ethnographic inscriptions are thus interpretations of interpretations, and interpretations... | |
| Michael Martin, Lee C. McIntyre - 1994 - 818 pages
...anthropological writings, including those collected here, this fact — that what we call our data are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to — is obscured because most of what we need to comprehend a particular event, ritual, custom, idea,... | |
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