[청랑 킬러문항] 2025 수능 영어 빈칸 문제 #50

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지문)

Treat a culture not as a machine to be explained but as a text to be read. What appears as simple behavior—a wink, a shout at dusk—can be mere physical movement or a richly coded act, depending on the webs of significance that give it meaning. The interpretive approach insists that observers cannot remain outside those webs: they must reconstruct the local logic by which gestures become signals, jokes become social commentary, and rituals express how members understand their world. A "thin" description of actions—who did what, when, and where—may be accurate yet reveal little, because it omits the very premises that make an act intelligible. By contrast, a "thick" account situates the act within shared symbols, norms, and expectations, showing how participants themselves negotiate and contest meaning. This stance also resists the impulse to derive universal laws from scattered cases. It treats religious and political systems as frameworks of meaning that fuse a community's moral ethos with its understanding of reality; it regards ethnography as an interpretive effort—honest in intent, incomplete in scope—about people's own interpretations of their lives. The goal, then, is neither prediction nor simplification but clarification: to render practices intelligible on their own terms while recognizing that any reading remains tentative. From this perspective, the hallmark of rigorous cultural inquiry is that ________________.

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Vocabulary

web (of significance)	wɛb	의미의 그물망
intelligible	ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəbəl	이해 가능한
ethos	ˈiːθɒs	풍, 도덕적 성향
ethnography	ɛθˈnɒɡrəfi	민족지학, 문화기술지
tentative	tɛntətɪv	잠정적인
hermeneutic	hɜːrməˈnuːtɪk	해석학의, 해석적

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문제) What best completes the blank?

① behaviors are first cataloged objectively so that universal patterns can be identified
② explanation gives way to interpretation that reconstructs actors' meanings in context 
③ meanings are inferred by setting aside local viewpoints to ensure neutrality
④ predictive power becomes the primary test for assessing theoretical validity
⑤ quantitative measurement replaces contextual understanding as the standard of rigor

 

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