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Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture

In Gerard Delanty & Piet Strydom (eds.), Philosophies of social science: the classic and contemporary readings. Phildelphia: Open University (2003)

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  1. (1 other version)Three Plots, Six Characters and Infinite Possible Educational Narratives.Diana Silberman-Keller - 2004 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 36 (4):379-398.
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  • The Failure of the Best Arguments against Social Reduction (and What That Failure Doesn't Mean).Todd Jones - 2003 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 41 (4):547-581.
    In this paper, I will argue that the most systematic arguments for the impossibility of reducing of social facts are not, in fact, good arguments. The best of these, the multiple realizability argument, has been very successful in convincing people to be non-reductionists in the philosophy of mind, and can plausibly be adapted to argue for anti-reductionism in the social sciences. But it, like the other arguments for the impossibility of social reduction, cannot deliver. Any preference we have for social (...)
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  • Understanding Meaning-Formation Processes in Everyday Life: An Approach to Cultural Phenomenology.Tõnu Viik - 2016 - Humana Mente (31):151-167.
    The paper addresses a phenomenological explanation of the processes of meaning-formation that take place in everyday life. Whereas various social sciences have taken a structuralist standpoint and refer to cultural structures that inform and shape the way things are experienced, classical philosophical epistemology, in contrast, has put an emphasis on the individual mind as the active center of meaning-formation. The author argues for a cultural phenomenology that is capable of giving a philosophically satisfying epistemological account of individual experiences that are (...)
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  • Disadvantaged Identities: Conflict and Education from Disability, Culture and Social Class.Ignacio Calderón-Almendros & Cristóbal Ruiz-Román - 2016 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 48 (9).
    This project reflects on the way in which students in a situation of social risk construct their identity. Based on the reflections and theories originating from research conducted on individuals and collective groups in a situation of social exclusion due to disability, social class or ethnicity, this paper will analyse the conflicts these students have to deal with when constructing their identity. It also examines the challenge that education has to face to turn those conflicts into opportunities that will help (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Lévi-Strauss: Modern, Ultramodern, Antimodern.Ugo E. M. Fabietti - 2013 - Diogenes 60 (2):24-39.
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  • Sacred Spaces, Healing Places: Therapeutic Landscapes of Spiritual Significance.Geraldine Perriam - 2015 - Journal of Medical Humanities 36 (1):19-33.
    Understandings of the relationship between space, culture and belief are formative in the experience of seeking healing. This paper examines the relationship between place, healing and spirituality in the context of interdisciplinary perspectives (particularly those of the medical humanities) on healing and well-being. The paper examines places of spiritual significance and their relationship to healing in the ‘uncertain’ quest for alleviation or cure, exploring these thematics in the context of the work on the geographies of ‘therapeutic landscapes.’ Through a discussion (...)
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  • The Meanings in the Music and the Music's in Me: Popular Music as Symbolic Communication.George H. Lewis - 1983 - Theory, Culture and Society 1 (3):133-141.
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  • Medical Discourse in Religious Controversy: The Case of the Critique of “Enthusiasm” on the Eve of the Enlightenment.Michael Heyd - 1995 - Science in Context 8 (1):133-157.
    The ArgumentMedicine is only a cultural system of its own. It also performs specific roles in the broader culture of society at large. This article examines the role of medical arguments in the critique of“enthusiasm” on the eve of the Enlightenment. The enthusiasts, who claimed to prophesy and to have direct divine inspiration, were increasingly see in the seventeenth century as melancholics. With the decline of humoral medicine, however, the account of melancholic disturbances – including enthusiasm – that was offered (...)
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  • Men's passage to fatherhood: an analysis of the contemporary relevance of transition theory.Jan Draper - 2003 - Nursing Inquiry 10 (1):66-78.
    Men's passage to fatherhood: an analysis of the contemporary relevance of transition theory This paper presents a theoretical analysis of men's experiences of pregnancy, birth and early fatherhood. It does so using a framework of ritual transition theory and argues that despite its earlier structural‐functionalist roots, transition theory remains a valuable framework, illuminating contemporary transitions across the life course. The paper discusses the historical development of transition or ritual theory and, drawing upon data generated during longitudinal ethnographic interviews with men (...)
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  • Oxytocin and the neurobiology of attachment.Thomas R. Insel - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (3):515-516.
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  • Does function imply structure?William A. Mason - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (3):519-520.
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  • A new psychobiological theory of attachment: Primum non nocere.Charles B. Nemeroff & Sherryl H. Goodman - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (3):520-521.
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  • Behavioural, aminergic and neural systems in attachment.Eric A. Salzen - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (3):522-523.
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  • The interface between the psychobiological and cognitive models of attachment.Marian Sigman & Daniel J. Siegel - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (3):523-523.
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  • Refining the attachment model.Maria L. Boccia - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (3):511-512.
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  • A wise child: Face perception by human neonates.Hadyn D. Ellis - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (3):514-515.
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  • Functional aspects of play as revealed by structural components and social interaction patterns.Marc Bekoff - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (1):156-157.
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  • Functions of play: First steps toward evolutionary explanation.C. M. Berman - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (1):157-158.
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  • Play stimulated by environmental complexity alters the brain and improves learning abilities in rodents, primates, and possibly humans.P. A. Ferchmin & A. Eterović - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (1):164-164.
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  • Explaining the evolutionary significance of intellectual play: Are we barking up the wrong tree?Paul E. McGhee - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (1):166-167.
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  • From intra- to interpsychological analysis of cognition: Cognitive science at a developmental crossroad.Boris M. Velichkovsky - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (3):537-538.
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  • Towards a new image of culture in wild chimpanzees?Christophe Boesch - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (3):514-515.
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  • Hierarchical levels of imitation.R. W. Byrne - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (3):516-517.
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  • The politics of religious dualism: Naim Frashëri and his elective affinity to religion in the course of 19th-century Albanian activism.Albert Doja - unknown
    In standard Albanian studies and Western scholarship, including either any interested religious and political activism or less 'interested' lay people, endeavours of historical and textual fact-finding have been relevant for only to re-confirm and indeed perpetuate the very meaning of a myth, according to which the thinking of Naim Frasheri was formed and dominated by Bektashism and that his 'Albanianism' had a Bektashi foundation. In this paper I intend to scrutinize and disprove this, arguing that while Frasheri did indeed have (...)
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  • Raising “Authentic” Indian Children in the United States: Dynamism in the Ethnotheories of Immigrant Hindu Parents.Hemalatha Ganapathy-Coleman - 2013 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 41 (4):360-386.
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  • Swallowing their pride: Indigenous and industrial beer in Peru and Bolivia. [REVIEW]Benjamin Orlove & Ella Schmidt - 1995 - Theory and Society 24 (2):271-298.
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  • Forum: The present and future of american intellectual history introduction.Thomas Bender - 2012 - Modern Intellectual History 9 (1):149-156.
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  • What Is It Like to Be Someone Else?Daniel T. Linger - 2010 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 38 (2):205-229.
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  • Exploring Forms of Triangulation to Facilitate Collaborative Research Practice: Reflections From a Multidisciplinary Research Group.Tarja Tiainen & Emma-Reetta Koivunen - 2006 - Journal of Research Practice 2 (2):Article M2.
    This article contains critical reflections of a multidisciplinary research group studying the human and technological dynamics around some newly offered electronic services in a specific rural area of Finland. For their research, the group adopted ethnography. On facing the challenges of doing ethnographic research in a multidisciplinary setting, the group evolved its own breed of research practice based on multiple forms of triangulation. This implied the use of multiple data sources, methods, theories, and researchers, in different combinations. One of the (...)
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  • Growing up Charismatic: Morality and Spirituality among Children in a Religious Community.Thomas J. Csordas - 2009 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 37 (4):414-440.
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  • Mind and Experience in a Hindu City.Steven Parish - 2005 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 33 (4):480-486.
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  • Ethical Care of the Critically Ill Child: a conception of a ‘thick’ bioethics.Franco A. Carnevale - 2005 - Nursing Ethics 12 (3):239-252.
    In this article I argue for an interpretive approach to bioethics with critically ill children. I begin by highlighting the dominant Anglo-American bioethical framework that defines standards for ethical care in critically ill children and then outline a critique of this framework. Drawing predominantly on the ideas of Charles Taylor, Michael Walzer and Richard Zaner, I call for a reconception of bioethics and propose an interpretive ‘thick’ framework that is centred on culture and context. Finally, I illustrate this interpretive approach (...)
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  • A phenomenological account of practices.Matthew Louis Drabek - unknown
    Appeals to practices are common the humanities and social sciences. They hold the potential to explain interesting or compelling similarities, insofar as similarities are distributed within a community or group. Why is it that people who fall under the same category, whether men, women, Americans, baseball players, Buddhists, feminists, white people, or others, have interesting similarities, such as similar beliefs, actions, thoughts, foibles, and failings? One attractive answer is that they engage in the same practices. They do the same things, (...)
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  • The Deep Bodily Roots of Emotion.Albert A. Johnstone - 2012 - Husserl Studies 28 (3):179-200.
    This article explores emotions and their relationship to ‘somatic responses’, i.e., one’s automatic responses to sensations of pain, cold, warmth, sudden intensity. To this end, it undertakes a Husserlian phenomenological analysis of the first-hand experience of eight basic emotions, briefly exploring their essential aspects: their holistic nature, their identifying dynamic transformation of the lived body, their two-layered intentionality, their involuntary initiation and voluntary espousal. The fact that the involuntary tensional shifts initiating emotions are irreplicatable voluntarily, is taken to show that (...)
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  • The Health Professional Ethics Rubric: Practical Assessment in Ethics Education for Health Professional Schools. [REVIEW]Nathan Carlin, Cathy Rozmus, Jeffrey Spike, Irmgard Willcockson, William Seifert, Cynthia Chappell, Pei-Hsuan Hsieh, Thomas Cole, Catherine Flaitz, Joan Engebretson, Rebecca Lunstroth, Charles Amos & Bryant Boutwell - 2011 - Journal of Academic Ethics 9 (4):277-290.
    A barrier to the development and refinement of ethics education in and across health professional schools is that there is not an agreed upon instrument or method for assessment in ethics education. The most widely used ethics education assessment instrument is the Defining Issues Test (DIT) I & II. This instrument is not specific to the health professions. But it has been modified for use in, and influenced the development of other instruments in, the health professions. The DIT contains certain (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Federalism and “Cultural” Identities. Some Remarks on the Naturalisation Procedure in Switzerland.Flora di Donato & Pascal Mahon - 2009 - Ratio Juris 22 (2):281-294.
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  • Law in Culture.Roger Cotterrell - 2004 - Ratio Juris 17 (1):1-14.
    The relationship of law and culture has long been a concern of legal anthropology and sociology of law. But it is recognised today as a central issue in many different kinds of juristic inquiries. All these recent invocations of the concept of culture indicate or imply problems at the boundaries of established thought about either the nature of law or the values that law is thought to express or reflect. The consequence is that legal theory must, it seems, now systematically (...)
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  • Psychiatry and Postmodern Theory.Bradley Lewis - 2000 - Journal of Medical Humanities 21 (2):71-84.
    Psychiatry, as a subspecialty of medicine, is a quintessentially modernist project. Yet across the main campus, throughout the humanities and social sciences, there is increasing postmodern consensus that modernism is a deeply flawed project. Psychiatry, the closest of the medical specialties to the humanities and social sciences, will be the first to encounter postmodern theory. From my reading, psychiatry, though likely defensive at first, will eventually emerge from a postmodern critique, not only intact, but rejuvenated. Postmodern theory, at its best, (...)
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  • On making a cultural turn in religious ethics.Richard B. Miller - 2005 - Journal of Religious Ethics 33 (3):409-443.
    This essay critically explores resources and reasons for the study of culture in religious ethics, paying special attention to rhetorics and genres that provide an ethics of ordinary life. I begin by exploring a work in cultural anthropology that poses important questions for comparative and cultural inquiry in an age alert to "otherness," asymmetries of power, the end of value-neutrality in the humanities, and the formation of identity. I deepen my argument by making a foundational case for the importance of (...)
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  • Islam and Informed Consent: Notes from Doha.Pablo Rodríguez Del Pozo & Joseph J. Fins - 2008 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17 (3):273-279.
    Informed consent is a perennial topic in bioethics. It has given the field a place in clinical practice and the law and is often the starting point for introductory instruction in medical ethics. One would think that nearly everything has been said and done on this well-worn topic.
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  • Affective citizenship: feminism, postcolonialism and the politics of recognition.Monica Mookherjee - 2005 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 8 (1):31-50.
    A serious problem confronting discourses on recognition is that of showing equal respect for citizens’ diverse cultural identities whilst at the same time attending to feminist concerns. This article focuses on the complex issues emerging from the recent legislation prohibiting the Muslim veil in French state schools. I respond to these problems by defending two conditions of a postcolonial and feminist approach to the politics of recognition. This approach should be, first, transformative, in the sense of widening its conception of (...)
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  • How to draw the line between metaphoric use and abuse: Are Howe and Lyne out of line on sociobiology?Herbert W. Simons - 1992 - Social Epistemology 6 (2):215 – 218.
    (1992). How to draw the line between metaphoric use and abuse: Are Howe and Lyne out of line on sociobiology? Social Epistemology: Vol. 6, The Rhetoric of Sociobiology, pp. 215-218. doi: 10.1080/02691729208578656.
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  • The rituals of science: Comments on Abir‐Am.Hugh Gusterson & Pnina Abir-Am - 1992 - Social Epistemology 6 (4):373 – 387.
    (1992). The rituals of science: Comments on Abir‐Am (with response) Social Epistemology: Vol. 6, The Historical Ethnography of Scientific Rituals, pp. 373-387.
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  • Historical ethnography as a way of knowing (with response).Barbara Frankel & Pnina Abir-Am - 1992 - Social Epistemology 6 (4):355 – 364.
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  • Explaining large-scale historical change.Daniel Little - 2000 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30 (1):89-112.
    A prominent historiographic theme in the past decade has been a movement away from causal explanation of large-scale processes and outcomes and toward narrative interpretation of singular historical processes. This article argues for the continued vitality of large-scale historical inquiry and surveys the historiographic issues that arise in large-scale historical explanation. The article proceeds through an examination of several important recent examples of large-scale history: comparative history of Europe and China, the history of alternative forms of industrial organization, and the (...)
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  • Playing by and with the rules: Norms and morality in play development.Fabio Paglieri - 2005 - Topoi 24 (2):149-167.
    This article, Piaget’s theory of moral development in play behaviour is critically reviewed and framed within the philosophical debate on morality. On this basis, an alternative socio-cognitive model for describing normative evolution in play development is proposed. Special attention is paid to the transition from children’s play to adult games, for the purpose of demonstrating that some relevant features of morality stagnate, rather than progress, during such transition. Finally, some speculations are offered on the connection between moral involution in play (...)
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  • The religious nature of practical reason: A way into the debate. [REVIEW]David A. Krueger - 1986 - Journal of Business Ethics 5 (6):511 - 519.
    This paper criticizes De George's portrayal of theological ethics and its purported inability to make a distinctive contribution to business ethics with the following theses. (1) De George's understanding of the nature of theological ethics is faulty. Consequently his typology of the field is not an adequate description of the range of prevailing approaches. (2) A constructive proposal for religious ethics is offered which takes as its starting points (a) an aspect of human experience (self-transcendence) and (b) the human capacity (...)
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  • Prisoner's paradoxes.Jonathan B. King - 1988 - Journal of Business Ethics 7 (7):475 - 487.
    As levels of trust decrease and the necessity for trust increase in our society, we are increasingly driven toward the untoward, even disastrous, outcomes of the prisoner's dilemma. Yet despite the growing evidence that (re)building conditions of trust is increasingly mandatory in our era, modern moral philosophy (by default) and the social sciences (implicitly) legitimize an instrumental rationality which is the root problem. The greatest danger is that as conditions of trust are rationalized away through the progressive institutionalization of an (...)
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  • The uses of moral talk: Why do managers talk ethics? [REVIEW]Frederick Bird, Frances Westley & James A. Waters - 1989 - Journal of Business Ethics 8 (1):75 - 89.
    When managers use moral expressions in their communications, they do so for several, sometimes contradictory reasons. Based upon analyses of interviews with managers, this article examines seven distinctive uses of moral talk, sub-divided into three groupings: (1) managers use moral talk functionally to clarify issues, to propose and criticize moral justifications, and to cite relevant norms; (2) managers also use moral talk functionally to praise and to blame as well as to defend and criticize structures of authority; finally (3) managers (...)
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  • Ethnographic data in the age of big data: How to compare and combine.Kristoffer Lind Glavind & Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen - 2022 - Big Data and Society 9 (1).
    Big data enables researchers to closely follow the behavior of large groups of individuals by using high-frequency digital traces. However, these digital traces often lack context, and it is not always clear what is measured. In contrast, data from ethnographic fieldwork follows a limited number of individuals but can provide the context often lacking from big data. Yet, there is an under-explored potential in combining ethnographic data with big data and other digital data sources. This paper presents ways that quantitative (...)
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