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Frege: Philosophy of Language
Harvard University Press
The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
New York: Basic Books, 1973
  • "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture," ibid, 3-30.

    In this essay, he explains that he adopted the term "thick description" from philosopher Gilbert Ryle. Ryle pointed out that if someone winks at us without a context, we don't know what it means. It might mean the person is attracted to us, that they are trying to communicate secretly, that they understand what you mean, or anything. As the context changes, the meaning of the wink changes.

    Geertz argues that all human behaviour is like this. He therefore distinguishes between a thin description, which (to extend our example) describes only the wink itself, and a thick description, which explains the context of the practices and discourse within a society. According to Geertz, the task of the anthropologist is to give thick descriptions.

    In anthropology and other fields, a thick description of a human behaviour is one that explains not just the behaviour, but its context as well, such that the behaviour becomes meaningful to an outsider.

Poems and Persons
Presuppositions and compound sentences
Linguistic Inquiry, 4: 169-93
The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations
Edited by Norman W. Storer, including Introduction and Prefatory Notes.
University of Chicago Press.
http://books.google.com/books?id=zPvcHuUMEMwC
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered
  • ``a collection of essays that brought Schumacher's ideas to a wider audience, at a critical time in history. It was released soon after the effects of the 1973 energy crisis shook the world and dealt with the crisis and various emerging trends (such as globalization) in an unusual fashion.``
  • ``Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.``

References

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  1. ^ Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, chapter 4.