Author Topic: Need help with my thesis about Hip-Hop culture  (Read 327 times)

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Re: Need help with my thesis about Hip-Hop culture
« Reply #15 on: April 15, 2006, 08:20:07 AM »
You do NOT need to reply to those 10 questions, just tell me if they're good or not. Or you can also give suggestions on what I can do with my thesis about Hip-Hop culture. I'm planning to discuss the roots of Hip-Hop culture, its influence on modern society and the influence from the media on Hip-Hop culture. That's it so far. So please feel free to give suggestions...

god.... im a dumbass. well the questions are OK for school i guess, it's not like there are many teachers that would say it aint good cauz most don't even know shit about hiphop

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Re: Need help with my thesis about Hip-Hop culture
« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2006, 11:35:35 AM »
Mofos not reading the full post again... ::)

The ones you got now are alright, but you need more. And question number 10 is useless, it's too narrow as a multiple choice. I'd change it into a written answer.

You have to consider that maybe in that demographic there are some true hip-hop heads. Therefore you must also have questions that are more specific and deal with more "high level" issues of hip-hop. Plus, if you intend to show that that demographic has shallow hip-hop knowledge, you must have questions that show they really don't know much about the hip-hop outside the pop charts. If you have only that kinds of questions you have now, then the questionnaire is faulty, because there is no other result possible than that teenagers have shallow hip-hop knowledge.

You are right to have an expected result, but you must conduct an objective survey where other results than the one you are expecting to get are possible. And even if the final result is something totally different than what you expected, don't worry - that's not a mistake.

The important thing here is that you can't guide the results to a specific direction by conducting non-objective research.
Intention to show that teens only know the hip-hop that's on TV - good. Conducting a survey where no other result is possible - bad.

I hope I explained my view obscurely and complex enough, ha ha.

That's a cool topic for a thesis. Props for that, and good luck with the work.

Hey, thanks for giving me such good feedback (and yes, you explained it clearly). I have to admit that you're 100% right about my questionnaire being a bit faulty, since there is indeed only one result possible: "teens only know what's on TV". I'll certainly think of some more and better questions than the ones I have right now. Thanks again for the help, I really appreciate that.
Props.
Could you think of some good questions T-Dogg? Do you mean something like:

1) Name a legendary old school Hip-Hop artist.
2) When is Hip-Hop's "golden era" to be situated according to you?
...
?

Thanks again.