example

(at the bottom of this page, click the link "older posts" for the older posts)

I made a video example of how to create and interpret a table , 

and saved the following document (produced with speech recognition -- not totally edited for grammar):

I'm going to read you a list of some types of music. Can you tell me which of the statements comes closest to your feeling about each type of music, do you like it very much, like it, have mixed feelings about it, dislike it, dislike it very much, or do you not know much about it- [easy listening] * your race? Crosstabulation your race? Total other Hispanic White I'm going to read you a list of some types of music. Can you tell me which of the statements comes closest to your feeling about each type of music, do you like it very much, like it, have mixed feelings about it, dislike it, dislike it very much, or do you not know much about it- [easy listening] Dislike it Count 6 36 27 69 % within your race? 6.0% 11.1% 14.8% 11.4% Std. Residual -1.6 -.1 1.4 Dislike it very much Count 1 6 8 15 % within your race? 1.0% 1.9% 4.4% 2.5% Std. Residual -.9 -.7 1.6 Don't know much about it Count 26 113 35 174 % within your race? 26.0% 35.0% 19.1% 28.7% Std. Residual -.5 2.1 -2.4 Like it Count 38 108 58 204 % within your race? 38.0% 33.4% 31.7% 33.7% Std. Residual .7 -.1 -.5 Like it very much Count 5 12 8 25 % within your race? 5.0% 3.7% 4.4% 4.1% Std. Residual .4 -.4 .2 Mixed feelings Count 24 48 47 119 % within your race? 24.0% 14.9% 25.7% 19.6% Std. Residual 1.0 -1.9 1.8 Total Count 100 323 183 606 % within your race? 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%

Chi-Square Tests
	Value	df	Asymp. Sig. (2-sided)
Pearson Chi-Square	28.209a	10	.002
Likelihood Ratio	28.856	10	.001
Linear-by-Linear Association	.472	1	.492
N of Valid Cases	606
a. 3 cells (16.7%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 2.48.

We can see from this table that there is a statistically significant relationship between race and one's opinion about Easy listening  music .  The significance value is 0.002 , which is below the cutoff of 0.05 .  Looking at the crosstab table, we see that the "mixed feelings" row Is one of the most important , because the residual for Hispanics and the answer of mixed feelings , Which is -1.9 .  This means that Hispanics were less likely than we expected to have mixed feelings about easy listening  music .  Also Whites had a a standardized residual of positive 1.8 for the mixed feelings answer .  This means That Whites were more likely than we expected to have mixed feelings about easy listening.  The standardized residuals also relate to the percentages , in that we can see that Hispanics have an especially low percentage of mixed feelings responses , and whites have an especially high percentage of mixed feelings responses .  Only 14.9% of Hispanics have mixed feelings , while 24% of Others have mixed feelings and 25.7% of whites have mixed feelings .  It appears that whites are likely to have mixed feelings, and Hispanics are not likely to have mixed feelings. 

Another important row in the table is the "dislike it" row.  Here we can see that the other group had a standardized residual of -1.6 .  This means that the other group was less likely than we expected to dislike easy listening music .  Another important standardize residual in this row is the 1.4 for whites .  This means that whites are more likely than we expected to dislike easy listening music.  We can see a similar pattern when we look at the percentages.  6% of others dislike easy listening music.  11.1% of Hispanics dislike easy listening music.  14.8% of whites dislike easy listening music .  Whites are most likely of all race groups to dislike easy listening music, and others are least likely of all race groups two dislike easy listening music . 

Another important row in the table is the dislike it very much row.  Whites have a standardized residual of 1.6 for dislike it very much .  This means that whites were more likely than we expected to dislike it very much .  We can see that also in the percentages .  4.4% of whites dislike easy listening music very much , while only 1.9% of Hispanics dislike it very much , and 1% of others dislike it very much .  It appears that whites are more likely than other race groups to dislike easy listening very much . 

The overall findings in this table showed that whites are the most likely to have mixed feelings , that whites are most likely to dislike and whites are most likely to dislike it very much .  Why are whites more likely than Hispanics or Asians and African Americans to have negative attitudes toward easy listening music?  It is hard to speculate as to why Hispanics an African Americans would report more positive attitudes towards easy listening than whites .  Whites in the U.S. are more likely than African Americans or Hispanics to hold office jobs , where easy listening is most likely played during work time .  Perhaps, whites are more likely to have been exposed to easy listening during work , compared to African Americans and Hispanics, who may have been less likely than whites to have been exposed to easy listening during work.  Perhaps this exposure during work time has led to more negative attitudes toward easy listening music for Whites. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vei41gg4qlxfc8h/fall%2014%20spss.mp4?dl=0

computer lab spss

For SPSS on campus, other than social science lab, it looks like your best bet is Peters 133/135:

https://help.fresnostate.edu/students/computerlabs/open/pb133.php

and library laptops:

http://libguides.csufresno.edu/content.php?pid=347350&sid=2983715

Towards a cultural sociology Pat 2

It send before I Finished;

But how does this relate to popular music? because it serves as the main understanding for it being a dynamic process of every day reception, appropriation, aestheticisation of popular music texts and the production of its meaning. 

Towards a Cultural Sociology

This article serves as a development of sociology for popular music. One of the key parts of this article was talking about the point of tension between cultural studies and cultral society as it related to class and other constraints in culture. As we all know our culture is the big driving force in how we act and think. Culture has a huge affect on almost everything we do, including our taste in music. Cultural structure plays a huge rule in our day to day lives. 

Why Does Country Music Sound White?

This article talks about country music and just like the title states: Why does it sound white? The author started it out with a quote by Bush saying that country music is a story of america in music, its a story of patriotism and hard works, its the story of the love of freedom being just the same as the love of life itself. ut the author then states his main question after the quote, why do we always say country music sounds white. He explains people think this way because its believed to be a part of an imagined culture. When in reality this is false for two reasons, those reasons being that there is so such thing as a pure white culture and two we are a mix of all cultures. The author states we listen to country for three reasons: it gives us an idea of a perfect america, it appeals to the "low brow" and it gives us nostalgia which in the article is defined as simplicity or honest or traditional.  People do and dont listen to Country music for plenty of reasons. But to say its "sounds white" comes off as an almost uneducated reason, and i feel that through this whole article the author was almost making fun of these people. 

jamband scene

documentary on grateful dead parking lot scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCUP6bP17fg

documentary on rainbow family:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wu4H-d_kAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szw4YVqz80s

Why does country music sound white?

"Irma Jackson" Merle Haggard

http://youtu.be/4U-jKG7M9RY

*performed by Tony Booth

"Jolene" Dolly Parton

http://youtu.be/vWy5_H3xrUQ

Raquel Fernandez

MW 2:00pm 

Music and Meaning on the Factory Floor

Jocelyn Diaz

U2- Beautiful Day

http://youtu.be/co6WMzDOh1o

Friends Don't Let Friends Listen to Corporate Rock: Punk as a Field of Cultural Production

Jocelyn Diaz

Riot Grrrl- Bikini Kill

http://youtu.be/Ow8BWFlYbXQ

Antonio Medina SOC 142 , IN CLASS interview 10/22/ 2014

http://icati.catishack.com/uploads/AntonioMedina/AntonioMedina-16012072396-20141022-1414014108.1746.mp3
 

This interview was very good, because the topic that was disgust was very interesting. Now the topic was about how video games abuses the women image and reputation in their games, which may lead to those who play those game to treat women bad in the real world. As for the interview process I felt  a did good job listing and keep interviwer on topic and asking up fellow up questions to their answers and how they felt about the topic at hand .

notes

A few things I noticed that  needed clarification, from working with people in the lab yesterday. 

1) You need to use the standardized residuals to pick the most important cells (farthest away from zero), then read across that row to compare the percent in that most important cell to the percents in other cells in that row.  This should result in you interpreting at least two rows of each table, with each row containing at least one of the most important cells.  While it is fairly easy to pick the highest and lowest residuals, choosing which cells are most important is not exact -- typically you would not want to discuss a row that has "Don't know", "refused" or "unsure" unless it is the second (or, preferably, the third) row you discuss in that table.  The reason is that "don't know," "refused" and "unsure" responses just don't tell us very much. 

2)  All 5 tables must be listed on the blogsite, and each must be .05 or below for its P value. You must state the P value in the interpretation and say what it means; something like this: "The P value for this table is .000.  This is below the .05 cutoff.  This P value means there is a statistically significant difference between men and women on the question of Jazz music."  This is not required, but if you want, if the P value is .000 you may add the words "very strong", so it reads "very strong statistically significant relationship".

3) You want to think about the kind of paper you want to write -- what topics do you find interesting?

4) You want to make sure to clearly summarize the main findings in the table without using percents or numbers.  You may do this in several sentences.  Make sure it is totally clear.

5) You want to think about being able to tell a story.  This story is just an outline of the main finding for each table, threaded together into a thesis statement.  You don't need to write an introduction or conclusion that outlines that story for this draft of the paper that you are submitting now, but you will need to do that for a later draft that you will submit later.  For this draft you just need to get 5 pages of basic summary done for 5 tables.   These 5 tables will define the topics of your paper for the rest of the semester.  For the qualitative paper that is due later in the semester, we will pull quotes from the open-ended questions to match the tables you chose.  So if you chose a table covering race and rap music for the quantitative paper you submit now, you will be finding quotes on music from different race groups when you submit the qualitative paper later.

6) You want to be thinking about the articles you've read in the class and choose tables that are aligned with those articles.  You may reuse your quiz and other course writings as a rough draft for your literature review.  The lit review will be the last aspect of the paper which is the draft of the paper that is due at the very end of the semester. 

7) Also, be aware that in about two weeks I am going require that you orally present for 5 minutes, covering our research on homelessness or hunger.  This is not necessarily tied to what you submit for the paper, although I encourage you to think about how such a connection could be made.  You may include a table on homelessness as one of your 5 required tables for the paper.  You may include a table on hunger or homelessness as an extra credit table (up to two extra tables -- 7 total - will be accepted).  Extra credit tables may be integrated into the paper, or may be presented as an appendix. You are not guaranteed to be allowed to present on the table you chose for your paper.  There will be a signup sheet posted this week, which will have a limited number of slots to signup to present each significant table.

8) The paper will be submitted to course documents via upload by the end of the day Sunday Nov 9.  You want to present everything in a single word document.  For each table, you should present the table, then the written interpretation.   Each table has two parts, the crosstab table which has the percents and standardized residuals, and the chi-squared table which lists the Pearson chi squared P value (which must be .05 or below to be significant).

9) When interpreting the standardized residual, you want to give the actual number, and define the cell by column and row, then say "more than expected" if its positive residual or "less than expected" for a negative residual.  See the example I posted below.

Let me know if you have any questions.

misc

We are meeting in the regular classroom today.  We will walk over to the social science computer lab after holding about half of class in the regular classroom.

This is an exemplary final paper from a few years ago.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4ejxkmf3yq3tuo/exemplary%20community%20essay.rtf?dl=0

Music Suggestion

From Classification as Culture: Types and Trajectories of Music Genres, they mentioned a genre: psychedelic country. While searching around, also saw to some of the music as being referred to as "Cosmic American" but this album appeared on a few lists, so decided to post a song from it here.

The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin, track 2 - Sin City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rVzsEXk3kQ

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/f/flying_burrito_brothers/sin_city_lyrics.html

Also, the article mentioned Emmett Miller as an example of "lone musical experimentalists go unheralded, and their distinctive styles do not become genres within our definition of the term."

Emmett Miller/Lovesick Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSfhsmBFz4A

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lovesick_blues_lyrics_emmett_miller.html

Music suggestion presenter Nov. 3

Theory based music choices.... tough ones!!

How about the mentioned "Vanilla Ice:  Ice Ice Baby"

As a Industry created music?!

classroom interview

http://icati.catishack.com/uploads/LayneBersano/LayneBersano-17604950923-20141022-1414014251.1757.mp3

On October 20th, I conducted an interview with a fellow classmate.  I asked her if she saw misogyny or hatred of women in the modern popular culture such as video games, online games, but also music, tv, etc? She responded that she did and that many of the music videos and games show women in sexy outfits.  It bothered her that in most video games, the men are shown in armor and clothing to make them look strong and capable, while the women are wearing hardly anything at all.  She also spoke about how she believes that many men feel that women are solely around for their pleasure and their needs.  She felt that, because of the standard set in the video games about how women should look and dress, she was inadequate and would be overlooked by men for not dressing or acting like the women portrayed in the games and music videos.  She talked about experiencing situations where male voices dominate female voices and the women are not heard.  She thought that it could be due to not wearing things that bring attention to the woman.  When I asked her what should be done about these issues, she said that she didn't know if anything could be done, but if it could, it would take a long time to change things, because many people don't acknowledge that there is a problem at all.  She did say that raising the next generation to understand that everyone is equal could have an effect on this issue.  If things can change, it will take a lot of time and a lot of effort.