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

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Author: Alec McHoul
Institution: Murdoch University
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414258668
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