![]() ![]() ![]() His idea of culture is taken from Kluckhohn, where he feels culture isĢ) “the social legacy the individual acquires from his group” ģ) “a way of thinking, feeling, and believing” ĥ) “a theory on the part of the anthropologist about the way in which a group of people in fact behave” ħ) “a set of standardized orientations to recurrent problems” ĩ) “a mechanism for the normative regulation of behaviour” ġ0) “a set of techniques for adjusting both to the external environment and to other men” He asserts that the essentially semiotic nature of culture has implications for the social sciences in general and political science in particular. The ethnographer’s role is to observe and analyse a culture by interpreting signs to understand deeper meanings within the context of that culture. In The Interpretation of Cultures, Clifford Geertz outlines in broader sense the job of an ethnographer. ![]()
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