“You Throw Like a Girl!”: A Sociological Analysis of Media Representation and Viewership of Women’s Sports

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dc.contributor.authorMaziarz, Tiffany A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-13T18:40:29Z
dc.date.available2020-11-13T18:40:29Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-09
dc.descriptionRecommended 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.
dc.description.abstractMotivated 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).en_US
dc.identifier.citationMaziarz, 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.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.48497/wrm4-f960
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/1294
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherHonors Program, The University of Tampaen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectMediaen_US
dc.subjectSportsen_US
dc.subjectRepresentationen_US
dc.subjectViewershipen_US
dc.subjectSportswomenen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Sociologyen_US
dc.title“You Throw Like a Girl!”: A Sociological Analysis of Media Representation and Viewership of Women’s Sportsen_US
dc.typeUndergraduate Thesisen_US

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