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1、ChaptertiThickDescription:TowardanInterpretiveTheoryofCulture4sIInherbook,PhilosophyinaNewKey,SusanneLangerremarksthatcertainideasburstupontheintellectuallandscapewithatremendousforce.Theyresolvesomanyfundamentalproblemsatoncethattheyseemalsotopromisethattheywillresolveallfun
2、damentalproblems,clarifyallobscureissues.Everyonesnapsthemupastheopensesameofsomenewpositivescience,theconceptualcenter-pointaroundwhichacomprehensivesystemofanalysiscanbebuilt.Thesuddenvogueofsuchagrandeidte,crowdingoutalmosteverythingelseforawhile,isdue,shesays,"tothefacttha
3、tallsensitiveandactivemindsturnatoncetoexploitingit.Wetryitineveryconnection,foreverypurpose,experimentwithpossiblestretchesofitsstrictmeaning,withgeneraliza-tionsandderivatives."Afterwehavebecomefamiliarwiththenewidea,however,afterithasbecomepartofourgeneralstockoftheoretical
4、concepts,ourexpec-ThickDescription:TowardanInterpretiveTheoryofCultureTHEINTERPRETATIONOFCULTUREShouseofpooledlearning";(7)"asetofstandardizedorientationstore-tationsarebroughtmoreintobalancewithitsactualuses,anditsexces-currentproblems";(8)"learnedbehavior";(9)amechanismforth
5、esivepopularityisended.Afewzealotspersistintheoldkey-to-the-uni-normativeregulationofbehavior;(l0)"asetoftechniquesforadjustingverseviewofit;butlessdriventhinkerssettledownafterawhiletothebothtotheexternalenvironmentandtoothermen";(11)"aprecipitateproblemstheideahasreallygener
6、ated'Theytrytoapplyitandextendofhistory";andturning,perhapsindesperation,tosimiles,asamap,asitwhereitappliesandwhereitiscapableofextension;andtheydesistasieve,andasamatrix.Inthefaceofthissortoftheoreticaldiffusion,whereitdoesnotapplyorcannotbeextended.Itbecomes,ifitwas,inevena
7、somewhatconstrictedandnotentirelystandardconceptofcul-truth,aseminalideainthefirstplace,apermanentandenduringpartture,whichisatleastinternallycoherentand,moreimportant,whichofourintellectualarmory.Butitnolongerhasthegrandiose,all-prom-hasadefinableargumenttomakeis(as,tobefair,
8、Kluckhohnhimselfisingscope,theinfiniteversatilityofapparentap