SOC SCI 89 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thick Description, Emic And Etic, Policy Analysis
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If the truth is produced you need to identify the major players in this production and their agendas. Fixed identities allow policy makers to clearly identify policy targets. Internalization of a particular culture allows one to know and believe those things that allow one to act in a manner acceptable to those in that particular culture. If you want to pass for a native, however, you have to deconstruct these rules. Man is an animal caught in the webs of significance he himself has spun (weber) Culture derives from these webs of significance . The study of culture is thus inherently an interpretive endeavor through which we can understand meaning. Describing phenomenon in terms familiar to the researcher. Describing phenomenon in terms familiar to the subject. Signs, meanings and how they are constructed. Understand the various meanings behind each social action. Think about various social phenomenon and the multiplicity of meanings they communicate.
