What we call our data are really our own constructions of other peopleโs constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
Clifford GeertzI'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means
Clifford Geertz[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.
Clifford GeertzIf there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology
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