Culture: Can you Take it Anywhere?

This is a written version of a lecture delivered at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Eduction at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The original series of lectures can be viewed at http://www.education.ucsb.edu/thematicschool/ . In this “culture” lecture, the author explores the difficulties...

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Main Author: Michael Agar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2006-06-01
Series:International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/160940690600500201
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spelling doaj-732feca8994d47f1b068e298a998d3752020-11-25T03:34:45ZengSAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods1609-40692006-06-01510.1177/16094069060050020110.1177_160940690600500201Culture: Can you Take it Anywhere?Michael AgarThis is a written version of a lecture delivered at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Eduction at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The original series of lectures can be viewed at http://www.education.ucsb.edu/thematicschool/ . In this “culture” lecture, the author explores the difficulties in using the concept in contemporary research with particular reference to its relational nature, its partiality, and the various problems that ethnography now addresses. In the end, the concept might have outlived its technical use, even as popular use increases.https://doi.org/10.1177/160940690600500201
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description This is a written version of a lecture delivered at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Eduction at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The original series of lectures can be viewed at http://www.education.ucsb.edu/thematicschool/ . In this “culture” lecture, the author explores the difficulties in using the concept in contemporary research with particular reference to its relational nature, its partiality, and the various problems that ethnography now addresses. In the end, the concept might have outlived its technical use, even as popular use increases.
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