Kaharz wrote:What social research have you done exactly?
The college I attended was a research based university (FSU). Because of this, the professors were continually requiring us to do long drawn out research papers. This was for an elective class I took and had I known the amount of work it'd require I would have taken anything else.
Basically, I used previous research papers and studies along with more than the 30 minimum required interviews (statisticians are apparently in love with the number 30 as the first legitimate sample size) to come to this conclusion. I say social research only because it involved speaking with people and observing society. The vast majority was actual references gathered from JSTOR when my college admission came with access to it. Most of it is guess work, in my opinion. The papers could not really pin down an individual who was somehow able to lay claim to being the trend starter. Most nationwide trends didn't start in only one place and so the conclusion generally assumes there is a different basis for the origin than just someone trying to be cool and deciding to do something differently.
The professor leaned a bit heavily on me to focus on sagging pants (him being an aged white man probably had something to do with that). Actual research points to people not being able to afford pants that fit and so the fad was made out of necessity (as opposed to the anti-sagging pants propaganda floating around that it involved ass-rape in prison). You'd be surprised how many people have been caught while trying to escape a police officer due to a "hindrance of apparel".
We also found a plausible correlation with several modes of transportation (aside from cars) that have come into the forefront in some regions. Perhaps you've seen someone driving a miniature motorcycle down a sidewalk that was intended for children? The idea is that it is cheaper than a real bike or car and doesn't require the effort of a cycle. But, alas, we can only really guess at all of this since we don't have a first person. I found the work to be overladen with race stereotypes due to the severe poverty found in most minority groups. Papers on gold chains and the need to wear nice clothes and have an expensive car when you live in slums and are missing meals. It's surprising what people research to make a comment about race. I branched my paper out to show other trends in other cultures. Mopeds, for example, are being associated with environmentally friendly people when cost seems to have more to do with it.
Basically, we'd find someone who was the first generation in their family to express a trend and we'd try to place them on a socioeconomic scale. I had to have at least 30 people admit to be under the poverty level and 30 people who admit to be over it. Randomizing the sample size was a bit difficult but I managed to get 125 people to take the study in five days.
[quote="Kaharz"]What social research have you done exactly?[/quote]The college I attended was a research based university (FSU). Because of this, the professors were continually requiring us to do long drawn out research papers. This was for an elective class I took and had I known the amount of work it'd require I would have taken anything else.
Basically, I used previous research papers and studies along with more than the 30 minimum required interviews (statisticians are apparently in love with the number 30 as the first legitimate sample size) to come to this conclusion. I say social research only because it involved speaking with people and observing society. The vast majority was actual references gathered from JSTOR when my college admission came with access to it. Most of it is guess work, in my opinion. The papers could not really pin down an individual who was somehow able to lay claim to being the trend starter. Most nationwide trends didn't start in only one place and so the conclusion generally assumes there is a different basis for the origin than just someone trying to be cool and deciding to do something differently.
The professor leaned a bit heavily on me to focus on sagging pants (him being an aged white man probably had something to do with that). Actual research points to people not being able to afford pants that fit and so the fad was made out of necessity (as opposed to the anti-sagging pants propaganda floating around that it involved ass-rape in prison). You'd be surprised how many people have been caught while trying to escape a police officer due to a "hindrance of apparel".
We also found a plausible correlation with several modes of transportation (aside from cars) that have come into the forefront in some regions. Perhaps you've seen someone driving a miniature motorcycle down a sidewalk that was intended for children? The idea is that it is cheaper than a real bike or car and doesn't require the effort of a cycle. But, alas, we can only really guess at all of this since we don't have a first person. I found the work to be overladen with race stereotypes due to the severe poverty found in most minority groups. Papers on gold chains and the need to wear nice clothes and have an expensive car when you live in slums and are missing meals. It's surprising what people research to make a comment about race. I branched my paper out to show other trends in other cultures. Mopeds, for example, are being associated with environmentally friendly people when cost seems to have more to do with it.
Basically, we'd find someone who was the first generation in their family to express a trend and we'd try to place them on a socioeconomic scale. I had to have at least 30 people admit to be under the poverty level and 30 people who admit to be over it. Randomizing the sample size was a bit difficult but I managed to get 125 people to take the study in five days.