Thick Description- Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
To designate the role of ‘thick description’ in ethnography, Geertz uses the concept of a parody, a twitch, and a wink. It may be challenging to decipher between a parody, a wink, and a twitch when all three acts involve moving the right eyelid. An observer may think that people are doing the same thing, but individuals who are twitching, winking, or mimicking a wink know that it is different. It requires keenness to realize that there are differences, for instance, grimaces, laughter, deliberation, communication, or over-obviousness, involved. These behaviours have different meanings in a socio-cultural context, and this is what Geertz uses to describe culture and ethnography. Culture is a detailed context, and anyone seeking to understand it should dig deeper to comprehend each behaviour.
Relative to this scenario, my example will involve a case of three people whistling. The first person is whistling for fun, for example, singing and humming. At the same position or place, a second person is whistling but in an attempt to signal or call someone. Another person, besides the two, mimics the latter whistler with no intention of calling someone and not doing it for fun, either. The latter whistler, however, is clumsy and does not care whether the whistles are sending a meaning, but one would still describe the three people as whistlers. A common observer may not decipher that the three whistlers are doing the same thing but have different intentions.
This example of whistlers helps me distinguish between thick and thin descriptions. A thin description would occur when one categorizes all three people as whistlers. Looking into a socio-cultural perspective and context, one would realize that the whistles have a different meaning. While the first one is for fun, the second one is a gesture, and the third one is a parody. This difference is what Geertz would refer to as the thick description.
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