“You Throw Like a Girl!”: A Sociological Analysis of Media Representation and Viewership of Women’s Sports
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2020-11-09
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Honors Program, The University of Tampa
Abstract
Motivated by the sociological theories of Symbolic Interactionism and Contemporary
Feminism, this research explores the intersections of gender, the media, and sports on a
southeastern college campus. Undergraduate students were recruited from various sections of
Introduction to Sociology to complete a 38-question survey administered through Qualtrics. The
final sample size was 85 (n = 85). Bivariate analyses were conducted using RStudio and SPSS
simultaneously, and any relationship that was found to be significant (p = .05) was analyzed
using a Cramer’s V coefficient test to determine the strength of association. Trends that stood out
in the research were 1) There are differences in perspective between men and women college
students; 2) There are not many differences in opinion between those who participate in sports
and those who do not; and 3) There were differences between viewership frequency (this could
also be tied to the amount of sports coverage watched by each gender, however, multivariate
analysis was not conducted).
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Recommended Citation: Maziarz, Tiffany A. “‘You Throw Like a Girl!’: A Sociological Analysis of Media Representation and Viewership of Women’s Sports.” Honors Program, The University of Tampa, 2020. https://doi.org/10.48497/WRM4-F960.
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Gender, Media, Sports, Representation, Viewership, Sportswomen, Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Sociology
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Maziarz, Tiffany A. “‘You Throw Like a Girl!’: A Sociological Analysis of Media Representation and Viewership of Women’s Sports.” Honors Program, The University of Tampa, 2020. https://doi.org/10.48497/WRM4-F960.