The theories of William James and John Dewey regarding the nature of experience suggest that there is an aspect of the organization of culture that sociologists have not yet studied formally, namely the structuring of sensory experience. We propose a way of trying to measure respondents’ experience of “textural” music, as opposed to their preferences, evaluative judgments, or associations. We employ a novel data-gathering approach as part of 61 in-depth interviews, and then analyze the dimensionality of the distribution of reported experiences. We find three dimensions, all of which seem to touch upon fundamentally meaningful binaries of embodied experience.

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文化体验的结构

威廉·詹姆斯和约翰·杜威关于经验本质的理论表明，社会学家尚未正式研究文化组织的一个方面，即感觉经验的结构。我们提出了一种尝试衡量受访者对“质感”音乐体验的方法，而不是他们的偏好、评估判断或联想。我们采用一种新颖的数据收集方法作为 61 次深度访谈的一部分，然后分析报告的经验分布的维度。我们发现了三个维度，所有这些维度似乎都触及了具身体验的基本有意义的二元。