Title

A Translucent Model of Experience and Description

Description

It is possible to conceive of a method of theorizing "from within" so that the interpretive scheme of the analyst coincides with the participants' approach to deciphering a given event or communication. Hence, a "layered communication" requires a "layered model" to decode and translate it to the theorist's audience. … The assumption is that the ultimate modeling process relies on an experiential base that can be traced to the reality orientation of performers. This orientation or "state of consciousness" can be partially translated discursively. However, the core of the description remains embedded within the specific state and can only be described accordingly. Therefore, the model [presented in the figure] can be set forth. The models overlap and part of each is visible through the other (a translucent model). Yet, full correspondence between the participant's description and the translated model, while it is the orientation of analysis, cannot be fully achieved. This model explicitly presents the gaps between experience, description, and formal presentation as a necessary feature of talk about states of consciousness. Each level of description remains a medium through which the next level can be discerned, just as the "state" itself is the frame through which individual percep­tions and experiences become meaningful.

Designer

Jules-Rosette, Bennetta

Date

1978

Source

“The Politics of Paradigms: Contrasting Theories of Consciousness and Society"

Bibliographic Citation

Jules-Rosette, Bennetta. 1978. “The Politics of Paradigms: Contrasting Theories of Consciousness and Society.” Human Studies, Vol. 1, No 1. Figure 1. Pages 105-106.

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Coverage

consciousness

methodology

sociology