scholarly journals Testing the Omnivore Hypothesis in Russia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Юлия Олеговна Папушина
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Demographic Profiles ◽  
Musical Preference ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Social Demographic ◽  
Perm Region ◽  
Musical Preferences

In the last thirty years, a significant shift from the homology to omnivore argument has occurred in musical preference studies. Studies on the omnivore argument mainly come from North and South America, Western and sometimes Eastern Europe. To the best of our knowledge, there are no empirical tests of musical omnivorousness in Russia. The aim of this paper is to reveal omnivore musical preferences in Russia, and analyzes the links between musical preferences, social-demographic profiles, and tolerance. Our research also emphasizes the territory dimension. The research setting is the Perm Region. A survey of 2,400 Perm Region citizens is analyzed using principal component analysis and linear regression provides evidence for the research. Our findings do not indicate omnivore musical tastes in Russia that contradicts the conclusions of the research in other cultures. Instead of finding the omnivore pattern, we found Bourdieu-like patterns of classical versus pop music taste and nostalgic taste versus contemporary taste. Representatives of each taste pattern have a specific social-demographic profile. The urbanization factor influences musical preferences as well. The paper discusses the limitations of the research and directions for further work. Acknowledgements. The publication was prepared within the framework of the project “Intergenerational cultural dynamics” No 18-011-00548А supported by Russian Fundamental Research Fund.

Pop Music, Preference and Personality

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Neville
Keyword(s):  
Personality Types ◽  
Music Preference ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Musical Preference ◽  
Musical Preferences

In an attempt to clarify thinking about the musical preferences of fourteen-year old schoolchildren, the author devised an experiment to test the hypothesis that musical preference relates to the personality types of extroversion and introversion, as defined by Eysenck. The results did not confirm this hypothesis, so other factors – the sex of the subjects, the kinds of music and the chosen items themselves – were analysed and their interaction evaluated. There was no hierarchy of factors and the conclusion is that fourteen-year-olds are able to make judgements based on musical criteria.

Donors’ Social-Demographic Profiles and Blood Donation Behaviour: Case Study of the National Blood Centre of Malaysia

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 7865-7869
Author(s):  
Yessy Octavia Misdi ◽  
Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah ◽  
Haris Abd Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Blood Donation ◽  
Demographic Profiles ◽  
Social Demographic

scholarly journals ADAPTIVE VARIABLE EXTRACTIONS WITH LDA FOR CLASSIFICATION OF MIXED VARIABLES, AND APPLICATIONS TO MEDICAL DATA

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (Number 3) ◽  
pp. 305-327
Author(s):  
Hashibah Hamid ◽  
Nor Idayu Mahat ◽  
Safwati Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Medical Data ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Continuous Variables ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
Mixed Variables ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Leave One Out ◽  
Direct Use

The strategy surrounding the extraction of a number of mixed variables is examined in this paper in building a model for Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). Two methods for extracting crucial variables from a dataset with categorical and continuous variables were employed, namely, multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and principal component analysis (PCA). However, in this case, direct use of either MCA or PCA on mixed variables is impossible due to restrictions on the structure of data that each method could handle. Therefore, this paper executes some adjustments including a strategy for managing mixed variables so that those mixed variables are equivalent in values. With this, both MCA and PCA can be performed on mixed variables simultaneously. The variables following this strategy of extraction were then utilised in the construction of the LDA model before applying them to classify objects going forward. The suggested models, using three real sets of medical data were then tested, where the results indicated that using a combination of the two methods of MCA and PCA for extraction and LDA could reduce the model’s size, having a positive effect on classifying and better performance of the model since it leads towards minimising the leave-one-out error rate. Accordingly, the models proposed in this paper, including the strategy that was adapted was successful in presenting good results over the full LDA model. Regarding the indicators that were used to extract and to retain the variables in the model, cumulative variance explained (CVE), eigenvalue, and a non-significant shift in the CVE (constant change), could be considered a useful reference or guideline for practitioners experiencing similar issues in future.

Musical preference and social identity in adolescence

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Lamont ◽  
David Hargreaves
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Musical Preference ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Function ◽  
Musical Preferences

The idea that a ‘musicianship of listening’ might exist alongside the more conventional notion of musicianship based on composition, improvisation, and performance forms the starting point of our analysis of the importance and function of musical preferences in adolescence. We consider adolescents’ musical preferences, a key part of their social identities, in the context of broader lifespan changes in musical preference, looking in particular at the explanatory power of the notion of ‘open-earedness’. We consider the main psychological theories of adolescent musical preference, distinguishing between those based on social identity theory and those which adopt different sociocultural approaches. There can be no doubt that musical preferences form a central part of the identities of many adolescents, and that the notion of a musicianship of listening can help explain why these preferences are integral to their social relationships and wellbeing.

scholarly journals Consumption attributes and preferences on medicinal and aromatic plants: a consumer segmentation analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman Inanç Güney
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Aromatic Plants ◽  
Consumer Group ◽  
Medicinal And Aromatic Plants ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Demographic Profiles ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
Segmentation Analysis

ABSTRACT: In recent years, increasing interest in natural and traditional plants, which are an integral part of rural life, has been observed because of health concerns and new social trends. In this regard, medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are becoming more popular among consumers. The purpose of this research is to investigate consumers’ attitudes and behaviors toward MAPs in order to identify possible distinct consumer group and examine its potential linkage to the characteristics of the consumers’ demographic and socio-economic status. To detect the perceived differences among consumers, the principal component and k-means cluster analysis were performed using the data from a face-to-face survey (n=420) conducted in five major cities in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The analysis allows segmenting the market into three homogenous clusters that have distinctive behavioral, attitudinal, and socio-demographic profiles. This segmentation is particularly effective for the dynamics and further expansion of the MAP sector as an important source for rural life.

Listening behaviour and musical preference in the age of ‘transmitted music’

Popular Music ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 119-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Rösing
Keyword(s):  
Large Degree ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Musical Preference ◽  
Transmission Chain ◽  
Musical Understanding ◽  
Technological Transmission ◽  
At Will ◽  
Musical Preferences

The significance of the mass media in everyday musical life can scarcely be exaggerated. Music is nowadays, to a large degree, heard in technologically communicated form, i.e. as ‘transmitted music’ (Übertragungsmusik), not live (see especially Silbermann 1954, Eberhard 1962, Jungk 1971, Goslich 1971, Bornoff 1972, Blaukopf, Goslich and Scheib 1973, Schmidt 1975, Rösing 1978a, Brinkmann 1980, Hosokawa 1981). It can be assumed that young people and adults in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) consume, on average, a good three hours' worth of music a day, on radio, cassette recorder, television or records. The fact that music, by means of the technological transmission-chain, is available at all times and can be replayed at will, independent of the here-and-now of live performance, has far-reaching consequences for the listening behaviour, listening expectations, musical preferences and musical understanding of every individual. Two of these aspects, listening behaviour and musical preferences, will be examined in detail in what follows.

Principal component analysis of the information structure of British English and Chinese genres

Glottotheory ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Ji
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
British English ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Contrastive Linguistics ◽  
Central Purpose

AbstractWhat is a textual genre? How do the genres of typologically different languages differ from each other? How systematic differences of the genre systems reveal variations among languages in terms of the information structure? These are fundamental research questions in contrastive linguistics. The central purpose of this paper is to investigate variations between textual genres of British English and Mandarin Chinese by using large-scale language data bases. The corpus analysis shows that textual genres of the two languages are different from each other systematically, which thus sheds new light on the inherent cognitive and cultural differences between the two language and cultural systems.

scholarly journals Measuring musical preferences from listening behavior: Data from one million people and 200,000 songs

2019 ◽  
pp. 030573561986828
Author(s):  
Kai R Fricke ◽  
David M Greenberg ◽  
Peter J Rentfrow ◽  
Philipp Y Herzberg
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Behavioral Approach ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Previous Theory ◽  
Musical Preference ◽  
Musical Preferences

Musical preferences are a fundamental individual difference predicting a multitude of listening behaviors. For decades, researchers have investigated how musical preferences are organized but have been hindered by genre-based and self-report methodologies. Recently, researchers have begun to investigate musical preferences at the feature-level using stimuli, rather than at the genre-level using self-reports. However, these new methods have been experimental and limited in their ecological validity. To address these recent limitations, we use an ecologically valid behavioral approach based on one million people who listened to more than 200,000 songs from streaming services, which is to our knowledge the largest study to date on the structure of musical preferences. Individual musical preference was measured from song playback counts and analyzed using principal components analysis on the psychological and sonic music features. Our results showed that music-feature preferences had a three-dimensional structure confirming previous theory and research. These dimensions are Arousal (level of energy in music), Valence (spectrum of negative to positive emotions), and Depth (intellectual and emotional depth in music). These findings lay firm ground for future research on music-feature preferences and pave the way for social-psychological and neurobiological experiments with music.

scholarly journals Fitness and Musical Taste: Do Physically Fit Listeners Prefer More Stressful Music?

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Lindsay Warrenburg ◽  
David Huron
Keyword(s):  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Main Study ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Handling Stress ◽  
Musical Preference ◽  
Musical Taste ◽  
Dispositional Factors ◽  
Musical Preferences

Research suggests that person-based dispositional factors, as well as properties of the music, influence a person's musical taste. In this study, we examined the possibility that the interaction between the stressfulness of the music and a listener's capacity for handling stress contributes to that listener's musical preferences. The key prediction relating fitness to musical preference is that the stressfulness of the music should tend to reflect the person's capacity for handling stress, including his or her physical fitness. The study method made use of an online questionnaire to assess physical fitness, impulsivity and sensation-seeking tendencies, and musical preferences. To create an independent index for estimating musical stressfulness, a parallel study was conducted, where an independent group of judges assessed the stressfulness of the music identified by participants in the main study. The stressfulness of the music was predicted using the survey-based dispositional factors in two regression models, where sex, current age, education, current fitness, and age at the time of musical preference were found to predict the stressfulness of the preferred music. The results suggest that males, younger participants, people with fewer years of education, and those who are more physically fit tend to prefer more stressful music.

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