Sociology in Stereo

Intro to Sociology · Fall 2022 to Fall 2024

Sociology in Stereo

Every class meeting began with a song. Over four semesters my students chose 438 different songs, each one logged with its genre, its language, how the student was feeling, and what the weather looked like outside. Taste feels personal. This playlist shows how much of it is social.

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Four things the playlist says

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Semester
Genre
Student who chose it
Artist

Who picks whom?

The sound of the room

How each semester sounded

A song chosen in more than one semester counts in each of them.

How students were feeling

What the sky looked like

Most picked artists

    The songs

    About the data. Genres and track details come from Spotify and the Chosic genre finder. Moods for the 2024 semesters were generated by AI tools. Each song appears once, even when it was chosen in several semesters, and spelling variants were merged. Students chose their own songs, so this is a record of one set of classrooms, not a statement about everyone. No names or hometowns are shown anywhere on this page.