Culture and Structure vs. Agency
Fragment of a discussion from Talk:Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture (Group 06)
Hi Nicole, I think it's great that you bring up that Geertz identifies the cultural struggle between objective and subjective. I found this to be particularly interesting if you look at the language that Mead uses to refer to the I self & the Me Self! When we consider how the two theorists converse with each other, we begin to notice where these similarities lie. For example, does Mead use the generalized other as a way of determining the self as the center?