Understanding (and) culture: Working out Sacks’s aphorism

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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Przegląd Socjologiczny
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2025-09-12
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https://doi.org/10.26485/ps/2025/74.3/3
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Race, History, and American Society
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Understanding (and) culture: Working out Sacks’s aphorism

Alec McHoul
Przegląd Socjologiczny
Race, History, and American Society
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Understanding (and) culture: Working out Sacks’s aphorism

Alec McHoul
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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.

Przegląd SocjologicznyVol. 74(3)
Murdoch University (AU)
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Race, History, and American Society
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