1. Thick Description: Toward
an Interpretive Theory of
Culture

2. Geertz was an American
anthropologist.
• Culture is public.
• Thick description
• Thin description

3. Thick description is,
• Semiotic term
• Public act
• Various sign and symbols
• Pre-ascribed cultural
meaning

4. • Wink of an eye
• Eye twitch

5. Thin description is,
• only behavior
• without interpretation
• For examle; wink is a
contraction of the eyelid.

6. Thin
description
• In India
culture, cow is
sacred.
• In Turkish
culture, cow is
animal for only
produce milk.

7. • Amulet in Turkish
culture

8. Thick
description

9. The four parameters Geertz,
1- Interpretative study.
2- The subject of interpretation is
the flow social discourse.
3- Interpretation deals with
extrovert expressions.
4- Ethnographic description is
microscopic.

10. • Gilbert Ryle was a
British philosopher.
• “Le Penseur”
(thinking of men)
• Thinking and
Reflecting
• The Thinking of

11. Thanks for
listening
• Tansu DEMIROK
• Melek Nur AYDIN