CLIFFORT GEERTZ AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL RESEARCHER

Abstract

In the last decade, postcolonialism has played a special role like post-structuralism, psycoanalysis and feminism as a critical discource in human sciences. Clifford Geertz is a social science researcher who comes from the west but is able to position himself as a researcher, in his writing and research, Geertz strives to be honest, integrity and also objective when conducting research in Java. This paper tries to explain in depth the position and role of Clifford Geertz as a researcher from several social science studies, namely religion, culture, history, anthropology, and sociology. The research method that the author used is a literature study approach. Geertz is a researcher who covers several sciences from the social sciences, namely anthropology researcher, sociological researcher, cultural researcher, and history researcher..