Factors Influencing Women s Participation - 1407 Words

CHAPTER THREE Research Methodology 3.1 Introduction The purpose of this study is to identify and analyse the factors that influence women’s participation in sports. The study is to enable me classify these factors into the facilitators and obstacles to women’s participation in sports. To achieve this, I participated in various sports activities which granted me the opportunity of: â€Å"learning from people† rather than â€Å"studying the people† as posited by (Spradley 1979:3). This chapter explicitly presents the specific research techniques that was used for the study. The techniques include: the study design and method, sampling, sampling units, data collection, my personal experience, data recording, ethics and expectation. The study design†¦show more content†¦This was achieved by doing a reconnaissance study. The exploration process got me acquainted with a lot of likely participants from which I selected qualified participants who agreed to participate. Selection of participants was based on their knowledge, time, availability and willingness to intensively participate as proposed by (Wolcott 2008:188). The second method thus snowball/chain referral method was used and very helpful. Here, the selected participants linked me up with other qualified participants who agreed to participate. This method was very effective for interviews. Sampling Unit and Size The sampling units was made up of professional/elite athletes and amateur/ recreational athletes (fans, sponsors, teachers, coaches, officials, manager, players, media, scouts, family and friends please refer to appendix A for more details, who were either active (competitive) or passive (non-competitive) and 18 years and above. Data was collected from participants over a period of 3 months (from May 4 to August 17). A total of 70 participants took part in the research. Data Collection In the field, ‘’data collection methods and technique, and analyses are the fundamental elements of ‘’doing ethnography’’ (Bickman and Rog 2009:544). Social researchers generally rely on primary and secondary sources of data [Ranjit 1996]. This ethnographic study, relied on secondary data to