CHEM 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviorism, Thick Description, Limburger
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Our modern conception of culture emerges in 18th and 19th century. Recentness of the term means it may not be applicable. When new terms emerge, what do they enable in a certain moment that accounts for thaw they come into our vocabulary. Citizens of different classes wouldn"t describe themselves of having shared experiences. We all like smelly cheese for france. Culture: man is an animal suspended in webs of signi cance which he himself has spun. An interpretive science in search of meaning. Human action cannot be describes without reference to the meaning of action. To pull us away from the notion that culture can be ascertained through physical observation. Neither can be described in objective terms. You cant"t solve the conundrum by any knowledge in one"s head, but public code which shapes the meaning of action. We must know the degree to which our observations are interpretations. When interpretation shifts, there is a fundamental indeterminate.
