C. Geertz. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture, chapter 3. Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books, New York, 1973.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....knowledge through formal tools and notations can result in thin descriptions (Ryle 1949) with the consequence that much of the meaning embedded in such information is lost. Informal representations of requirements traceability can address many of these problems. Such thick descriptions (Geertz, 1973) enable the user of requirements traceability to grasp the subtleties, tacit and mutual knowledge, and glean descriptions of work practices that are otherwise not made explicit (Jordon, 1992) Finally, unlike formal representations, which can only be used by individuals who are familiar with the ....

C. Geertz. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture, chapter 3. Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books, New York, 1973.

.... cf. Lakoff 37 1987) or (b) an unproblematically shared, static (i.e. a nondevelopmental, nonhistorical, and often nonsocial) semantic knowledge base (ethnoscience and much of cognitive anthropology; cf. Hutchins 1980) or (c) a strictly public (i.e. superindividual, nonmental) symbol system (Geertz 1973; cf. Shore 1991) Meaning in our model is an evolving property of the interaction of internal, artificial, and natural structures. At any point in the evolution of such a system we take meanings to be characterizations of the functional properties of individuals viz. a viz. the environment ....

Geertz, C. 1973. Thick description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture. In The interpretation of cultures, 3--30. New York: Basic Books.

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