thick description
collocation in Englishmeaningsofthickanddescription
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thick
adjective
uk/θɪk/us/θɪk/
having a large distance between ...
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description
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/us/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
something that tells you what something or someone ...
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(Definition ofthickanddescriptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofthick description
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Theories ofthickdescriptionstraddle both types; or the types can intermix in one theory.
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This 'thickdescription' makes ethnography a suitable style for writing up research projects that investigate the more complex interactions found in situations of musical learning.
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Then the spectrum of prediction is outlined step by step, from strict prediction to thickdescription, fromthickdescriptionto polemics, from polemics to fictional constructions.
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Indeed, historians, anthropologists and others interested in historical and cultural detail (what anthropologists refer to asthickdescription) will find little of it in this volume.
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Siegal's extensive data base andthickdescriptionprovide important insights into the role of learner subjectivity in pragmatic development.
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Thin description involves a straightforward physical account of human behaviour, whereasthickdescription seeks to establish exactly what that behaviour symbolizes or means to those who perform it.
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More important, though potentially still more opaque, is the question of patterns of knowledge hidden beneath particular comments, performances or gestures: the essence ofthickdescription.
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While it is laudable that she incorporates inequality as a variable, the book has some serious flaws for any theory-sensitive reader who believes in a 'thickdescription' of social life.
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Doesthickdescriptionlead to smart tests?
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Researchers present the dialogue connected with each theme in support of increasing dependability through athickdescriptionof the results.
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Thickdescriptionis an anthropological method of explaining with as much detail as possible the reason behind human actions.
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Geertz aimed to provide the social sciences with an understanding and appreciation ofthickdescription.
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The important realms of the mind and culture are too privileged by histories that become ' thick descriptions ' or retrievals of a discourse.
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They strive to produce thick descriptions as much as depictions of change and growth over long periods of time.
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In general, technology dynamics studies, besides giving athickdescriptionof technology development, uses constructivist viewpoints emphasizing that technology is the outcome of particular social context.
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The essential task of theory building here is not to codify abstract regularities but to makethickdescription possible, not to generalize across cases but to generalize within them.
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