Understanding (and) culture: Working out Sacks’s aphorism
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https://doi.org/10.26485/PS/2025/74.3/3Keywords:
Harvey Sacks, Gilbert Ryle, understanding, culture, recognizability, reflexivity, phenomenologyAbstract
This essay is a batch of reflections on and extensions of a short passage from notes made by Harvey Sacks in preparation for a lecture presented in the Fall term 1965 at UCLA. It concerns questions of understanding and culture as fundamental topics for doing sociology.
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