Professional vision | Infinite Ascent
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Crystal Lee’s post, What “The Devil Wears Prada” taught me about research, introduced me to the concept of professional vision: This is what linguistic anthropologist Chuck Goodwin calls professional vision—a way of looking at the world shaped by and codified through social practice. It is a method of close reading cultivated through apprenticeship and cultural norms, where professionals don’t necessarily learn to “see better” but to recognize patterns, practices, or social dynamics that a community finds meaningful. I rather like this phrase, professional vision. It’s not merely about…
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