 Influenced by Gilbert Ryle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Max Weber, Paul Ricoeur, and Alfred Schütz, the method of descriptive ethnography that came to be associated with Geertz is credited with resuscitating field research from an endeavor of ongoing objectification—the focus of research being "out there"—to a more immediate undertaking, where participant observation embeds the researcher in the enactment of the settings being reported.However, despite its dissemination among the disciplines, some theorists pushed back on thick description, skeptical about thick description's ability to somehow interpret meaning by compiling large amounts of data.They also questioned how this data was supposed to provide the totality of a society naturally.