Clifford Geertz’s description of culture

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Social Issues

 

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James U

 

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October 4, 2015

 

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It is the anthropologist’s job to unravel the webs of meaning and interpret them. Culture is also not a force or causal agent in the world, but a context in which people live out their lives. This goes back to Geertz’s early distinction between social structure and culture. Culture is only the pattern of meanings embedded in symbols...
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Culture is only the pattern of meanings embedded in symbols. Social structure is the “economic, political, and social relations among individuals and groups”. Geertz does not dismiss the study of social structure, but takes culture to be his object of study. Geertz develops his idea of reading cultural practices as “texts...
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