Reflections on Harvey Sacks’s insights into understanding and culture reveal foundational topics in sociology.
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.
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