Attitude about Rap on Age Category Controlling for Respondent’s Race

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Attitude about Rap 1

Running Head: Attitude about Rap by Age

Assignment #6

Attitude about Rap on Age Category Controlling for Respondents Race

Samuel R. Morris

SOWK 300

Tuskegee University

Friday, October 1, 2010


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Bivariate Table

Table 1

Attitude About Rap By Age of R (%)

______________________________________________________________________________Rs Age Group

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Rap 18-29 30-39 40+ Total

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Like 9.8 1.7 1.0 2.9

Dislike Rap 45.1 44.2 55.1 50.5

Other 45.1 54.0 44.0 46.6

Totals 100 100 100 100

(N) (19) (24) (56) (100)

_____________________________________________________________________________Source: SPSS Crosstab Rap by Age Categories

Bivariate Hypothesis: Since the early 1980s, Rap music has become a major part of the

American society. Based on the data, people between the ages of 18-29 enjoy rap music more

(9.8%) than people who are 40 years of age and over (1.0%). The data also shows that ages 18-

29 has the highest percentages of dislikes amongst rap music (45.1%) and ages 40 and above

have a percentage of 55.1% who dislike rap music. Based on the data, more people dislike rap

music (50.5%) than those who like rap music (2.9%).

Bivariate Discussion: The data above really shocked me. Most people believe may believe that

young people like rap music; however, the data shows that there are a large percentage of people

who dislike rap music. When thinking about this, why are we seeing these numbers? I believe

that people dislike rap music because of how it sounds or what it may contain. I was not surprise

that people over 40 dislike rap music because it is not a part of their culture, but I was surprise

that young people also disliked rap music.


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Bivariate Graph


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Multivariate Table

Table 2

Attitudes About Rap By Age of R (%)

Controlling for Rs Race (%)______________________________________________________________________________

Age of R

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White Respondents

Rap 18-29 30-39 40+ Total

Like 7.8 .7 .7 2.0

Dislike Rap 46.1 45.7 55.7 51.5

Other 46.1 53.6 43.6 46.5

Totals 100 100 100 100

(N) (18) (24) (58) (100)

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Black Respondents

Like 23.7 10.3 1.2 8.7

Dislike Rap 42.1 33.3 51.2 44.7

Other 34.2 56.4 47.6 46.6

Totals 100 100 100 100

(N) (24) (24) (52) (100)

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Source: SPSS Crosstab Rap by Age Categories

Multivariate Hypothesis: Based on the data above, there are more Black Respondents than

White Respondents who like rap music. For the White Respondents, only 7.8% (ages 18-29)

who like rap music compared to 23.7% of Black Respondents (ages 18-29) who like rap music.

Looking at the data again and in that same age group, 45.1% of White Respondents dislike rap


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music compared to 46.1% of Black Respondents. Looking at the overall data, only 2.0% of

Whites like rap music whereas 8.7% of Blacks like rap music.

Multivariate Discussion: The data above showed some very interesting findings. Depending on

the age category, there will be more White Respondents who like rap than Black Respondents

or vice versa. The data also showed that rap music is cultural to Black Respondents than White

Respondents. One thing that I did found interesting that the numbers for both Black and White

Respondents (ages 18-29) dislike rap music as well. Both respondents have a high number of

dislikes for rap music and to me this was very interesting.

Multivariate Graph


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