On the cultural watchdog
"On a grander and more sweeping scale, Geertz (1980) identifies a 'culture shift', a ' refiguration of social thought' bringing the humanities and social sciences closer together in th eir intellectual kinship:
What we are seeing is not just another redrawing of the cultural map - the moving of a few disputed borders, the marking of some more picturesque mountain lakes - but an alteration of the principles of mapping. Something is happening to the way we think about the way we think.
Geertz characterizes this as 'a turn ... by an important section of social scientists, from physical process analogies to symbolic form ones', and illustrates his argument by referring to the growing use of comparisons between society and 'a serious game, a sidewalk drama, or a behavioural text'. This change in 'the instruments of reasoning' has 'disequilibriating implications' for social scientists and humanists alike. The 'social technologist notion of what a social scientist is ... the specialist without spirit dispensing policy nostrums' is now brought into question; but 'the cultural watchdog notion of what a humanist is ... the lectern sage dispensing approved judgements' is by the same process being systematically undermined."
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For all undergraduate
students!!!, you do not paste but [re]think my message.
Remind Wittgenstein's phrase,
"I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own," - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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