Sunday, November 30, 2014
Chelsea Woodcock class participation 3
On Sept. 22, I interviewed a classmate about contact hypothesis. The person I interviewed felt that the hypothesis made sense because as more time he spent with someone the more he could understand their personal experiences. He used the example of people listening to country music or live in the country and work on farms often come across as unintelligent. However, when he was exposed to more people in Fresno that had this lifestyle, his opinion was reversed. I think this interview showed how stereotypes can be overcome by exposure which is the idea of contact hypothesis. It was a positive experience and showed how someone could have their opinion changed.
Chelsea Woodcock class participation 2
This interview was conducted in a conversation dialect about music and stereotypes that surround them. This interview was conducted on Sept. 29. The genres rap and gothic were seen as having a distinct look to the people who typically listen to the music. When I asked about the diversity of music, and she had mixed feelings about whether it was diverse or not. This is because the same themes of sex, drinking, partying, etc seem to appear in all genres. This would decrease diversity. I felt on the other hand that diversity has increased by breaking down the barriers between genres and doing more crossover music creating a new sound. Then we talked about whether music today was political and her conclusion was that artists today focus on being politically correct so they do not face backlash from their fans. I agreed but pointed out that even being politically correct is technically still a political statement.
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Chelsea Woodcock- Class Participation 1
This participation came from class on November 10 when we talked about music and how people obtain their music or listen to music. Since it was loud in class it was kind of hard to hear some of the recording. The person I interviewed felt that streaming music was going to hurt purchased music. She felt that artists deserve the right to charge for the music that they produce. It was obvious that she felt strongly about this because she says that no matter what she always purchases the music that she likes, even when she does occasionally listen to streaming music.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
M/W Tracy Galarza in class interview
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My interviewee was asked what she believed about the new Obama immigration reform.
classroom interview
My interviewee wanted to discuss the topic of Black Friday, so I asked her about Grey Thursday and Black Friday. She said she does not participate in that because she has seen videos of violence occurring because of these special sales. She told me how at Macy's, apparently a woman was so aggressive she purposely harmed children. That was appalling to hear especially when I have had experience working on Black Friday and getting hit in the face myself. She says she is pro-food and would much rather be eating than shopping for deals that lead to unneeded things.
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In class interview #2 Christen Forner
In class interview #2
I did an in class interview asking the question, Do you think that streaming music will take over purchasing music? The interviewee response was I don't listen to anything but Pandora. I have probably spent about fifteen dollars over the last 5 years on music. Streaming is definitely getting more popular rather than going to the store and buying a CD. We also talked a little about Spotify. She had never used it before, so we discussed how it was free and are able to create playlist of whatever songs you want and are able to listen to them at any time. We also talked about why music is less political today than in the 1960's. She talked about comparing 9/11 and the war in Iraq in our generation to what was going on in the 1960's, it was much bigger. There was so much more going on back then and so much more to think about. More people were involved, had the draft going on so people were being forced into it. So I think they had more to sing about. It impacted people's lives a lot more and there were big political views.
Class participation
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My partner talked about how she went to the Warp tour in San Diego. She went with her friends and boyfriend. Even though she went for only one band, she enjoyed the other band more. She said that she also went for some bands that have broken up and got together for the concert. She enjoyed the concert very much.Fwd: Paper
I'll take the paper after break, without penalty.
Basically I've extended the deadline (again) until the end of the day, Nov 30th. However, the lab is not scheduled to be open Nov 26-30th, and I want you to actually have a break, so, please, finish by the end of the day Tuesday 25th, if possible.
Antonio Medina SOC 142 , IN CLASS interview 11/24/14
Antonio Medina SOC 142 , IN CLASS interview 11/24/14
This interview was where we had several topics that we could chose from, so the topic that the person i interviewed was the Bill Cosby rape allegations. This was a very interesting topic to talk about , because Bill Cosby is a type of celebrity is hard to picture of him being guilty of doing this type of illegal activate. Therefore the interview went very well the person was able to speak his mind about how he felt about all these allegations starting to come out. as well i was able to provide information that the person did know about the topic at hand. Thus i felt this was a good interview for i think i had very little mistake , so i cant wait for the next one.http://icati.catishack.com/uploads/AntonioMedina/AntonioMedina-16012072396-20141124-1416867537.350.mp3
Antonio Medina SOC 142 , IN CLASS interview 11/24/14
Antonio Medina SOC 142 , IN CLASS interview 11/24/14
This interview was where we had several topics that we could chose from, so the topic that the person i interviewed was the Bill Cosby rape allegations. This was a very interesting topic to talk about , because Bill Cosby is a type of celebrity is hard to picture of him being guilty of doing this type of illegal activate. Therefore the interview went very well the person was able to speak his mind about how he felt about all these allegations starting to come out. as well i was able to provide information that the person did know about the topic at hand. Thus i felt this was a good interview for i think i had very little mistake , so i cant wait for the next one.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Marissa Corpus Soc 142 Participation Article
The first article that I chose was "How Social Movements Do Culture" by William G. Roy. In this article the author compares two moments in history: the People's Songster Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. While these moments in history occurred at two separate times in the 1900's, they were movement's that had a primary focus on integrating folk music as a form of culture. The People's Song Movement was during the 1930's through the 1940's; this was a communist-led movement. Folk music during this time was meant to reach the working class of the United States. The music turned out to be more of a performance rather than involving their targeted audience. On the other hand, the Civil Rights Movement was a very successful movement in that the folk music involved the people. It didn't matter who was singing, what mattered was what the people were singing together. This enabled a type of solidarity in what they were standing up for. The author stated that music does not have a lot of influence on cultural movement anymore. Most music these days is something to be bought and listened to rather than being involved in.
Marissa Corpus Soc 142
Marissa Corpus Soc 142 Participation
Today I asked my interviewee what they believed about Thanksgiving. They said they believed it was a good time to enjoy family. They had an experience they really stood out to them to feel this way. They also believed that people should live everyday as if it were there last, to live with kindness and thankfulness because you never know when your last day might be.
Presentation M @7 Diana Sicairos. Nov 24, 2014
Backpackers and Gangstas: Chicago's White Rappers Strive for Authenticity. This article looks at hoe white rappers create and maintain authenticity when they are inauthentic in the world standards of hip-hop. Study was conducted on 20 interviews with rappers ranging from 18 to 30 years of age. Rap has been reinterpreted by white rappers as their own holding, yet all the same themes used in rap music such as; poverty, violence, inequality and racism remain. Other races have taken up an interest in rap music so it's not just African Americans dominating this genre anymore but they have taken up in adopting aspects of Black American street culture whether it is biological difference or just in the opinions of others. "Race traitors" are they were referred to relinquish to their white heritage to take up that of a more global emerging ethnicity. Backpackers or gangstas are the two groups that rap artists are broken down into and the only major difference is in the way they rap. If their rhymes are to be sophisticated they are classified as backpackers but if their rhymes are "street" then they're gangstas. But only then is it that they are viewed as trying to be like other Black rappers.
Culture, Rap Music, "Bitch" and the Development of the Censorship Frame. Article looked at how social media changed the view of rap music, on how it's perceived by the public. For the most part people tend to associate rap music for it being criminally related or deviant in our culture. And the teenagers of today are viewed to be more out of control and even dangerous than in previous years. What this study did was try and relate how rap music reshapes an individual and how it relates to our history on music. Looking back rap has always been associated with race and class, usually those of blacks and the ghetto. So when music started becoming popularized the media as well as politicians became responsible for the negative image on rap music by stating that it was deviant and viewed as social disobedience. Reason for this being was that people from the ghetto or streets started talking about problems that no one was willing to bring up before rap music, but this became a way for the people to express themselves. It became known as a subculture; like hippies and drugs; a filler for the uncomfortable silence. The development of the censorship frame was brought up Tipper Gore who led a group known as Parents Music Resource Center. Shortly afterwards the use of foul language needed to have a "Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics" as a form of protection to the public and society.
Classroom Interview #4 Marisol Hernandez
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My interview was on November 24 at 2:18pm I interviewed her about Black Friday, she explained how the name has no significance since it no longer happens on an actual Friday. She expressed her feelings about how important thanksgiving was for her and that people shouldn't be working on that holiday especially because businesses just want to make a profit and do not care about the workers. She has had relatives do the Black Friday one time and she mentioned that christmas shopping was not as urgent as it was when they were younger. For her thanksgiving is a very important holiday because it lets us have a break to enjoy moments with our families before going back to the routine of work, school, etc. It helps us focus on what is in front of us, family.
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Marisol Hernandez
Hunger Awareness Story
I never really had an issue growing up with food. My parents are very smart about finances and took care of my brother and I really well. My mom always tried to provide me with balanced meals and snacks since I was little. I always had a packed lunch, we never ate fast food, and home made dinners were a regular thing. I got lucky that I got a parent that enjoys cooking, that helped a lot. The only time I ever had fast food was during my soccer days were she couldn't get me home to feed me before practice. Since we'd only go to one place, now that I'm older, its really the only fast food place I enjoy. I really never go anywhere else. I am lucky. I was born into a family that put my wellbeing in front of anything else, so I was always fed. So that's my story.
Emily Sage Stubblefield
Classmate Interview
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I talked to my classmate about what she thought of the Kim K photos that have been published. She talked about how she doesn't understand what Kim is doing with this photoshoot. She has a kid and she's not thinking about how this is going to affect her children in a few years. She also talked about how Kim was trying to get away from the sex scene and was ashamed of the sex tape but then goes and does this. We talked about how it seemed like she decided the spotlight wasn't on her enough and had to do something wild and crazy to get people talking about her again. We discussed how neither of us had any idea why she was famous other than just being famous. I suggested maybe she felt left out with the recent celebrity leak and decided to do something about it. We talked about its really obvious all she's looking for is attention, and it's sad.
Emily Sage Stubblefield
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Samantha Williamson
View on Politics in general
Nov 17 M @ 7 Diana Sicairos
Performing Gender: A Content Analysis of Gender Display in Music Videos by Cara Walls. Research consisted of 84 unique videos both of male and female performers recorded from the U.S. most watched cable stations of MTV and MTV2. 65 of the videos were male performers while only 17 were of female performers. The videos were broken down into 30 second segments and any duplicates were eliminated. Study was done to try and investigate the differences males and females play in music videos. Twelve nonverbal displays were chosen for coding and four hypotheses were put to test. Subordinate Nonverbal Behavior of Females, Dominant Nonverbal Behavior of Males, More Overt Sexuality Displayed by Females and More Aggressive Display by Males. The primary focus of this research being what are the gender displays of male and female lead performers in their music videos and how do they differ from one another? And even though society has accepted new norms and trends into our culture like those of "emo" emotional rock, "riot grrrls" and "girl power" males and females still uphold the same stereotypical gender role as before. The finding in this research were that females display more subordinate behaviors than males while males displaying dominant nonverbal behavior was not confirmed. Female performers display overt sexuality compared to males was confirmed and the last finding being that male performers display more aggressive behavior that female performers was partially confirmed. Gender displays shows that the institutionalized sexism persists in media representations even as of today.
My second article was Cosmopolitan preference: The constitutive role of place in American elite taste for hip-hop music 1991-2005. The American elite have established themselves as the "trend setters", such as in music, fashion, and entertainment. How does location fall into the constitutive role of the American elite and there taste for hip-hop? There are three place based criteria in which they base their judgments of the genre on. The first, rap must be meaningful, secondly, the "ghettoes" must be present and are central for it to be meaningful, and lastly, international scenes are privileged as politically and overall more important than American scenes are. Not so long ago, they perceived hip-hop/rap as a violent, socially harmful, and deserving of censure genre, but now it is legitimized as a high-status taste by the American elite. This shows that the American elite do not follow the French model of snobbish opposition of high status verses mass taste, and more importantly affirms that they are omnivores. Researchers use reception theory (a theory that observes how people judge specific objects, not just genre categories) to legitimize hip hop as an elite taste. Place was also used to base their criteria and legitimize low status inclusions to the broadening elite palate by its authenticity and exoticism. Elites do not hold all cultural products within a genre in equal esteem. They use place meanings to indicate which objects can be referred to as being of high status. New York City is widely accepted as the "birthplace of hip hop", more specifically in the south Bronx where disc jockeys would chop up and recombine music on a multitude of turntables, and were later joined by rhyming rappers. Hip hop/rap later spread from the east coast to the west coast and in the 90's a bitter feud between both sides had started. The two main rappers in the feud were Tupac Shakur (west coast rapper) and Christopher G. Wallace a.k.a Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls (east coast rapper). Inevitably both were killed in a drive by shooting. They rapped about easy woman, gun toting, and the gangster street life. All spawned by growing up in the poverty of the inner city. Although that is what eventually cost them their lives. Rap went from only being in the ghetto and the streets to having worldwide recognition. Hip hop/rap influenced everything from television to fashion, to even the way people spoke. It was also used in politics; it was a way that the blacks from the ghetto got their point across to society. The elite started to see the influence and incorporated rap into their elite palate. International rap combined both their local sounds with U.S. rap to create a new sound that grew in popularity even in the states. They legitimized it by basing it on certain criteria's to qualify as a high status taste. It had to be pure, that meant the rapper had to come from the ghetto and rap about his experiences as person growing up in poverty, around violence and drugs. It also couldn't be influenced by big businesses and major corporations. The elite prefer international over domestic for being innovative and aesthetically more pleasing than domestic rap. It seems the American elite have assimilated hip-hop/rap into their palate of high status culture due to its influence in society and its impact on trends worldwide.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
presentation
Performing Gender: A Content Analysis of Gender Display
in Music Videos
The author Cara Wallis showed the differences of gender display by males and females in music videos. Gender display involves nonverbal behavior of facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, and posture. The difference between males and females is how they show this. A study was conducted through viewing MTV and MTV2 music videos during the prime hours to figure out if it were males or females who would display more subordinate nonverbal behavior than the other, if females display more sexuality, and if males will how more aggression. It was confirmed that females showed more subordinate display, females are more sexual, and it was partially confirmed that males are more aggressive.
in Music Videos
The author Cara Wallis showed the differences of gender display by males and females in music videos. Gender display involves nonverbal behavior of facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, and posture. The difference between males and females is how they show this. A study was conducted through viewing MTV and MTV2 music videos during the prime hours to figure out if it were males or females who would display more subordinate nonverbal behavior than the other, if females display more sexuality, and if males will how more aggression. It was confirmed that females showed more subordinate display, females are more sexual, and it was partially confirmed that males are more aggressive.
Amy Ngo
Personal hunger story
I come from a background of a normal Mexican family. Both of my parents were born in Mexico and came to the US when they were older. My father had a strong sense of pride to support and provide for me and my two older brothers. Yes we grew up in the lower working class, but he refused to receive any type of welfare because he was the one who was suppose to provide for us. My mother made sure that we always had something to eat everyday. Any time she sees us shes asks, "have you ate yet?" We always had food at home, but they did struggle to buy vegetables sometimes because of the prices going up. For fruit we did not worry because my father is a field worker and brought home fruit to eat. we never had the problem of not have something to eat because they made sure that money was saved up to buy food and pay for any unexpected situations and bills.
Rosa Martinez Hunger Awareness Interviews
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Long Interview
Emily Sage Stubblefield
Saturday, November 22, 2014
interview at homeless table
here are three 2-3 minute interviews:
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Free Speech- Hunger and Homelessness awareness week
Chelsea Woodcock
When I volunteered at the hunger table on Thursday, it was a really quiet period (1-2pm) and most of the other tables had cleared out after lunch. I did participate in the Library Diversity Committee's hunger questionnaire and I knew the answers to the 4 of 5 questions. A few people stopped by and asked about the envelopes the Sociology club had put together or how long we would be collecting canned food/ blankets. http://icati.catishack.com/uploads/ChelseaWoodcock/ChelseaWoodcock-17327068006-20141120-1416517306.200.mp3 http://icati.catishack.com/uploads/ChelseaWoodcock/ChelseaWoodcock-17327068006-20141120-1416519100.207.mp3
thank you
Thank you for participating in the Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.
We've put together a video, and posted hundreds of short interviews that were done with passerby on the free speech area throughout the week, along with some
written personal stories, here,
Friday, November 21, 2014
Class participation Homelessness Week
Interview 1: 93 Sec.
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Interview 3: 103 Sec.
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Interview 4: 126 Sec.
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Interview 5: 134 Sec.
Maida Sepulveda National Hunger and Homelessness Free Speach Interview
This interview lasted over 6 minutes so I'm using it as 2. Thank you.
Vanessa Delgado National Homelessness/Hunger Awareness Week Interviews
I did 4 interviews on hunger, 1 of them was 5 minutes, so counted as 2, for a total of 5 (extra credit)
analyzing music genres
I've already explained this below and shown on video, but I didn't put it specifically step-by-step instructions -- so, here it is . . .
If you are doing music and you want to do your analysis for the body of the paper to be on specific genre of music, you will need to follow these steps (Here I use the example of gender x jazz):
If you are doing music and you want to do your analysis for the body of the paper to be on specific genre of music, you will need to follow these steps (Here I use the example of gender x jazz):
1. Open the coded backup file
2. Do a text search query on your genre of music (e..g, jazz) within the sources of men x music. Go to text search query and type in the word jazz in the search query, and tell it to search only in music-men. Create it as a new node, saved in nodes, called "men and jazz music," and SPREAD TO "NARROW". DO NOT SPREAD TO BROAD CONTEXT OR YOU WILL GET OTHER QUOTES BESIDES MUSIC.
3. . Do a text search query on your genre of music (e..g, jazz) within the sources of women x music. Go to text search query and type in the word jazz in the search query, and tell it to search only in music-women. Create it as a new node, saved in nodes, called "women and jazz music," and SPREAD TO "NARROW". DO NOT SPREAD TO BROAD CONTEXT OR YOU WILL GET OTHER QUOTES BESIDES MUSIC.
4. Conduct a word frequency query on the "men and music" node you created, and describe the findings - -- how do men talk about jazz music?
5. Open the node "men and music" node you created, and do hand coding so you can describe at least one theme and 2 quotes representing that theme - -- how do men talk about jazz music?
6. Conduct a word frequency query on the "women and music" node you created, and describe the findings -- how do women talk about jazz music?
7. Open the node "women and music" node you created, and do hand coding so you can describe at least one theme and 2 quotes representing that theme -- -- how do women talk about jazz music?
I used Jazz x gender as an example here, but you can watch the video of me doing it for easy listening x work, and read the example output. From these you should be able to do the same for other genres of music and other demographic characteristics besides gender or work.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Marissa Corpus Soc 142
My experience with homelessness is personal to an extent. A couple of my family members have been on and off the streets these last couple of years. They are family members who are much older than I am, we never grew up together, thus we don't have very personal relationships. My dad tells me stories pertaining to what has been going on with their situation, being that they have a home to stay, but come in and out of their families lives as they please. To know that I have family members who are on the streets is heartbreaking. For me, when I would see people on the corners asking for money I never thought to myself that homelessness could affect my family.
pics and office hours
Please send me any pictures you took during the event.
If you want to help by making a short video clip out of the pics we have, please stop by the lab today during my extra office hours:
1030-11am Thursday
I will also be in the lab:
1030am - noon Friday (there may be a class at 11am -- if so, I will be in my office, and will return after the class ends)
3-430pm - Friday
I may be able to stay between noon and 3pm, if there is a need. Make sure to arrive before noon if you want to catch me.
I may be able to stay between noon and 3pm, if there is a need. Make sure to arrive before noon if you want to catch me.
I cannot promise the lab will be open on the weekend, because officially its not supposed to be open, even though it is almost always open on the weekend anyway (usually noon to 4pm). I am not going to announce /promise I will make it to the lab on the weekend, although I hope to make it there for a few hours in the afternoon on Saturday.
Fwd: Two interviews for Homelessness week hour Monday Night Class
From: "Erica Jacobsma" <ejacobsma@mail.fresnostate.edu>
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:04:34 PM
Subject: Two interviews for Homelessness week hour Monday Night Class
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:04:34 PM
Subject: Two interviews for Homelessness week hour Monday Night Class
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Darrell Wright, personal story.
My name is Darrell Wright and I just want to share my side of the hunger and homeless issue from a personal standpoint. As a kid, I never considered myself to ever be hungry or homeless. But, when I was younger my family and I had to move in with my grandmother for about a year because we had lost our home. Now, as a kid I didn't realize that this was considered homeless. I thought being homeless meant staying out on the street and asking for money. Now, even though we were technically homeless, however we were never hungry. Now, I used to be a part of the lower class, and I personally didn't like that some students in our sociology class assumed that all lower class families couldn't afford food. Food was always a priority in my household and I can not remember a time where we absolutely had nothing to eat? We never qualified for food stamps, but we always had food. Whether it just be beans and rice, or top roman noodles...there was always something. Now that my family is back on our feet, and we are a little bit more financially stable, I still never prejudge people and their financial situations. Because I was once in there shoes and sometimes looks can be deceiving. Just because a family doesn't make a lot of money doesn't necessarily mean that they are starving.
Santana
Ryan Santana
In my presentation I chose to do Homelessness Solution and Gender. The Chi-Square value was below the cut off and proved that there is a statistical relationship between homelessness solution and gender. It seems by the crosstab graph that females seem to rely more on government regulation to help the homelessness problem than males. Males seem to think that the private sector such as businesses should help out the homelessness situation. Fe-males seem to believe in assistance more than the individual. This might be because females might have more government jobs than males. Fe-males also might participate more in community events then males.
class room interview
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We discussed how people interpreted the very popular song blurred lines. We both felt that the song was mainly a party song and not a song about rape. my interviewee discussed that they really just want to have fun thats why they are at the club but some of the lyrics was hard to interpret but that is probably because robin thicke wanted to sound like that on purpose because he is drunk. So overall, this song was just a really catchy beat and lyrics to make the club/party more fun and dance.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Fwd: hunger awareness all 5 interview 130% credit
From: "Jordan Davis" <jordandavis127@mail.fresnostate.edu>
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:40:03 PM
Subject: hunger awareness all 5 interview 130% credit
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:40:03 PM
Subject: hunger awareness all 5 interview 130% credit
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Presentation
Performing Gender: A Content analysis of gender display in music videos.
This article investigated the differences in gender display by male and female performers in music videos. The findings revealed that significant gender displays primarily reinforced stereotypical notions of women as sexual objects and to a lessen degree, females as subordinate, and males as aggressive. . Many studies also focused on violence in music videos, finding that males, compared to females,
were more likely to be aggressors as well as victims of violence. Basically females in music videos are more seen as sexual objects and males more of a dominance and violent. In the study, the researchers assumed that sex had an effect on gender display. They believe that sex was the physical presence in the lead performer of music videos between males and females.
What is sociological about Music?
This article talked about how music affects people regarding their class, race, and ethnicity. music provides an important and engaging purchase on topics that are
of great concern to sociologists of all stripes—topics that range from
the micro-foundations of interaction to the macro-level dynamics of
inequality. Music is one that is shaped by, and shapes,social arrangements and cultural assumptions. Sociologists also said that music was a form of cultural capital where t was important for people to learn music's history and know the culture of it. It makes that individual well-rounded and obtain a great knowledge about music. Music has many meanings of interpretations. It is our society, the people, our lives.
Vanesa Rivera
Free Speech Interview Marisol Hernandez
My first interview was not recorded due to the fact that she has anxiety so I told her if it is fine if I jot down notes as we proceeded with the interview. She agreed to that. She was part of organizations that she feels very passionate about, she wanted to make an impact in society. Her major is dietician so she wanted something to involve food with what she was volunteering for. She feels hopeful for the issue because she believes that they will get help in solving this issue. Her recent interaction with a homeless person was a surprise because during her discussion she did not know that they were homeless until after talking. She also stated that homelessness description is not a solid definition because anyone can be homeless, it affects everyone.
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Marisol Hernandez
schedule, post your experience
You can see here, the schedule for the week, as well as the recordings from free speech that I forwarded there, plus the short posts you were to post there about your own personal experience with homelessness:
Monday, November 17, 2014
Homelessness Tabling Interviews
Joyce Jackson, 11/17/14 homelessness tabling interviews
Interview 2
Interview 3
Interview 4
Interview 5
Article Response
The second article I read was called, "The Diaspora Of West Africa: The Influence Of West African Cultures On 'Jody Calls' In The United States Military." This article is about how marching cadences used by the United States Military, when studied throughout history, has evolved from the slave songs and the music of pre-colonial West Africa. This article describes the six elements that explain this evolution: call and response songs, cadences that focus on the voice, a percussive backbeat to create energy, functionality in nature, focus on the experiences of daily living, and a long oral history.
classroom interview
On November 10, 2014 I conducted a interview in the classroom and asked the person questions about MP3 taking over purchasing music. The interviewee believed that MP3 was going to take over because it is easier to acquire. Then I asked if it is worth purchasing music and the interviewee believed it is worth because artists work hard to give us good quality music.
Sociology 142
Miguel Alcaraz
Antonio Medina SOC 142 hunger table interview #1
Antonio Medina SOC 142 hunger table interview #1
URL to access: http://icati.catishack.com/uploads/AntonioMedina/AntonioMedina-16012072396-20141117-1416257663.2653.mp3
Antonio Medina SOC 142 homeless table interview #1
Antonio Medina SOC 142 homeless table interview #1
URL to access: http://icati.catishack.com/uploads/AntonioMedina/AntonioMedina-16012072396-20141117-1416255775.2647.mp3
Antonio Medina SOC 142 Homeless table interview #1
Antonio Medina SOC 142 Homeless table interview #1
URL to access: http://icati.catishack.com/uploads/AntonioMedina/AntonioMedina-16012072396-20141117-1416257663.2653.mp3
Hunger Experience Marisol Hernandez
A personal experience that I went through was when I was young I remember not wanting to eat my food and my mother would always get upset with me and tell me to finish it because there are people who do not get to eat. She would always repeat this when I was small and I never really understood it until now that I am more aware because when I was little I couldn't imagine not being able to have any food to eat.How was it possible for people not have any food, I feel very blessed in not going a day without food yes there have been times when the food was very little but there was enough. Compared to other people that have none at all I was grateful. Now i eat what I can and not waste food. I have also volunteered in the bulldog pantry to give back to the community and help those individuals and family to receive the help they need.
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Marisol Hernandez
Free Speech Interview
Interviewing students on campus about Hunger was very interesting. No one student had the same opinion and thoughts on the issue. I added an extra question asking How hard is it to eat a balanced diet as a College student. That one was well liked! ;)
Jennifer Sanchez
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Tracy Galarza m/w 2pm
http://icati.catishack.com/uploads/tracygalarza/tracygalarza-12404549415-20141105-1415226092.2177.mp3
This interview was done in class. I asked the intervieww what she thought about the case in Oregon, regarding the a lady who was diagnosed with cancer and decided to end her own life before her pain got worst. I asked what she thought about dignity verses suicide.
My interviewee had previously followed up with news about this case, so she was informed about it. She believed it is a personal choice to make and she thought the patient had every right to do this. She didn't believe this was considered suicide, she believed it was a choice.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Re: Oral Presentation
This is excellent, but I added/changed a few things (in italics below).
From: "Vanesa Rivera" <chata104@mail.fresnostate.edu>
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 1:49:08 PM
Subject: Oral Presentation
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 1:49:08 PM
Subject: Oral Presentation
Hello Dr. Kubal,
I was just wondering if you may have the time to revise my interpretation of my table. My table that I am going to talk about is regarding hunger and race. Thanks.
We can see from this table that there is a statistically significant relationship between race and one's opinion about whether people would like to see more or less government spending regarding hunger. The significance value is 0.034, which is below the cutoff of 0.05. Looking at the crosstab table, we see that the "Spend much more" row Is one of the most important, because the residual for Hispanics and the answer of spend much more, which is -.8. This means that Hispanics were less likely to want the government to spend much more on children and families on hunger. Also the other group had a standardized residual of positive 1.8 for the "spend much more" answer. This means that the other group was more likely to want the government to spend much more on hunger. The standardized residuals also relate to the percentages, in that we can see that Hispanics have a low percentage of spending much more responses, and the other group have a high percentage of spending much more response. Only 5.3% of Hispanics spend much more, and only 6.1% of Whites spend much more, while 11.0% of the other group spends much more. It appears that the other group wants to spend much more on hunger. It appears that Hispanics, compared to others, are not likely to want the government to spend much more on hunger.
Another important row in the table is the "Spend Less " row. Here we can see that the other group had a standardized residual of -2.2 . This means that the other group was less likely to want the government to spend less on hunger. Another important standardize residual in this row is the 1.8 for whites. This means that whites are more likely than we expected to want the government to spend less. We can see a similar pattern when we look at the percentages. 6% of others want the government to spend less. 14.1% of Hispanics said to spend less. 19.6% of whites said to spend less. Whites are most likely of all race groups to spend less on hunger for poor children and families, and others are least likely of all race groups to want to spend less on hunger for poor children and families. .
The overall findings in this table showed that the "other group" (Hispanics and Asians) are most likely to say the government should spend much more on hunger, and whites are most likely to want to spend less on hunger. Why are whites more likely than Hispanics or Asians and African Americans to want to see the government spend less on poor children and families regarding hunger? Whites in the U.S. are more likely than African Americans or Hispanics to come from middle or upper class because they don't have to worry about going hungry. I believe that whites are less likely to be exposed to homeless and food insecurity, compared to African Americans and Hispanics, who may have been more likely than whites to have been exposed to homeless and food insecurity. This can possibly be the case that Whites don't care too much about hunger because they don't see it in their environment or experience it, than minority groups like African- Americans, Hispanics, and Asians do experience it within their environment.
example oral presentation script
If you don't hit 4 minutes of speaking by talking about your table, you can talk about quotes related to the table (from nvivo), and/or you can talk about your positive experience with the project. If you stop before 4 minutes, and you have done well up to that point, I may ask you a question about your table (or let someone in the audience ask you a question about your table), to help you reach the 4 minute mark.
When your time is finished I will say "thank you." Then the audience will clap, and the next speaker will come up to the podium.
You may read your presentation script if you want. You are not graded on style, but, rather, on the content of your presentation (conveying of information) -- accurately describing the spss output which you chose on the signup sheet.
I'm posting the email exchange below because I think it provides an excellent example of how to write and revise a draft of your oral presentation. I read this script in about 2 minutes 30 seconds. This script might be supplemented with a few sentences using the sociological imagination to guess about why we found what we found, and/or the presenter could be prepared for some "back and forth" discussion between the instructor and/or audience to make it to at least 4 minutes.
Here's the original submitted script:
The P-value is .037 which is under the amount we want of .005.
The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is 1.6 in the Yes row and the upper middle and upper class is -1.3 which I believe are the most important. The lower and working class has a percentage of 21.2% which is 10 times higher than that of the upper middle and upper class with a percent of 9.3.
The findings here show that the lower and working class go hungry far more often than the upper middle and upper class.
Here's the revised script:The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is 1.6 in the Yes row and the upper middle and upper class is -1.3 which I believe are the most important. The lower and working class has a percentage of 21.2% which is 10 times higher than that of the upper middle and upper class with a percent of 9.3.
The findings here show that the lower and working class go hungry far more often than the upper middle and upper class.
The P-value is .037 which is under the amount we want of .05 shows that there is a statistically significant relationship between my two variables which are between the lower and working class and upper middle and upper class. The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is 1.6 in the Yes row, this means that the lower and working class is more likely than we expected to say yes to the question "In the last 12 months, were you ever hungry but didn't eat because there wasn't enough money for food?" The upper middle and upper class is -1.3. This means that the upper middle and upper class is less likely than we expected to say yes to the same question. These are what I believe to be the most important rows. For the Yes answer the lower and working class has a percentage of 21.2% which is 10 times higher than that of the upper middle and upper class with a percent of 9.3 and the middle class has a 14.1% with the same standardized residual as upper middle and upper class of -1.3.
The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is -.6 in the No row, this means that the lower and working class is less likely than we expected to say No to the question. The Upper middle class and upper class has a .7 standardized residual so this means that the upper middle class and upper class are more likely than we expected to say No to the question of being hungry. For the No answer the upper middle and upper class has a 90.7% compared to the lower and working class that has a 77.5%, and then the middle class once again is in between with an 82.7%.
The findings here show that the lower and working class go hungry far more often than the upper middle and upper class.
The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is -.6 in the No row, this means that the lower and working class is less likely than we expected to say No to the question. The Upper middle class and upper class has a .7 standardized residual so this means that the upper middle class and upper class are more likely than we expected to say No to the question of being hungry. For the No answer the upper middle and upper class has a 90.7% compared to the lower and working class that has a 77.5%, and then the middle class once again is in between with an 82.7%.
The findings here show that the lower and working class go hungry far more often than the upper middle and upper class.
See the email exchange below where she sent me the draft of the script and I made suggestions and she replied with the revised script.
From: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
To: "Victoria Fielder" <vfielder@mail.fresnostate.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 1:55:22 PM
Subject: Re: right now
To: "Victoria Fielder" <vfielder@mail.fresnostate.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 1:55:22 PM
Subject: Re: right now
see below for comments in bold. This should help you get at least 4 minutes. You might want to find a quote or two as well.
From: "Victoria Fielder" <vfielder@mail.fresnostate.edu>
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 1:43:51 PM
Subject: right now
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 1:43:51 PM
Subject: right now
The question is . . .
The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is 1.6 in the Yes row.
This means that lower and working class is more likely than we expected to say yes . . . (list question)
The P-value is .037 which is under the amount we want of .005.
This means there is a statistically significant relationship between my two variables . . .(list variables)
The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is 1.6 in the Yes row.
This means that lower and working class is more likely than we expected to say yes . . . (list question)
and the upper middle and upper class is -1.3.
which I believe are the most important.
For the xxx answer, The lower and working class has a percentage of 21.2% which is 10 times higher than that of the upper middle and upper class with a percent of 9.3.
You need to give the percentages across the rows for at least two rows of the table.
The findings here show that the lower and working class go hungry far more often than the upper middle and upper class.
hunger and classThe findings here show that the lower and working class go hungry far more often than the upper middle and upper class.