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Put Me In Coach! A Survey of the Impact of Team Sports on Women’s Self-Esteem

Put Me In Coach! A Survey of the Impact of Team Sports on Women’s Self-Esteem. By: Jessica Binhack Senior Sociology Comprehensive Presentation Advisor: Susan Alexander. Overview. Introduction Thesis/Purpose Statement Literature Review Theory Method Findings Discussion Questions.

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Put Me In Coach! A Survey of the Impact of Team Sports on Women’s Self-Esteem

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  1. Put Me In Coach! A Survey of the Impact of Team Sports on Women’s Self-Esteem By: Jessica Binhack Senior Sociology Comprehensive Presentation Advisor: Susan Alexander

  2. Overview • Introduction • Thesis/Purpose Statement • Literature Review • Theory • Method • Findings • Discussion • Questions

  3. Thesis/Purpose Statement • Thesis/Purpose: To gain an understanding of how participation in team sports during high school impacted the self-esteem of college aged women and to access the difference between those who did and did not participate in team sports.

  4. Literature Review • Positive Affects of Sports on Lifestyle • Pedersen and Siedman (2004) • Diaz (2005% • Todd and Kent (2003) • Affects of Sport on Individual Development • Van Mechelen & Verhaggen (2005) • Diaz (2005) • Viira and Raudsepp (2000) • Pedersen and Seidman (2004) • Harrison and Narayan (2002)

  5. Literature Review Cont’ • Impact of Sports on Depression • Sanders, Field, Diego, and Kaplan (2000) • Harrison and Narayan (2002) • Impact of Sports on Deviance • Naylor, Gardner and Zaichkowsky (2001) • Sports and Gender Identification • Alley and Hicks (2005) • Richman and Schaffer (2000)

  6. Theory • Simone de Beauvoir’s “Woman As Other” (1949) • Woman no at herself but relative to man • Not an autonomous being • Women unable to define themselves without men. • Socially conditioned to idea of being the “Other” • Duality • The “Self” and the “Other” • Men are the “Self” and women are the “Other” • Establishing of the “One” and the “Other” • Women’s secondary role in society hinders their upward movement • Acceptance of a life of inequality

  7. Theory Cont’ • Women historically as the “Other” • Women’s secondary role in society hinders their upward movement • Acceptance of a life of inequality • No historical events place women as “Other” • The inessential and the inability to be the essential • Pre-second wave of Feminism • More loyal to men then each other • Lack concrete means to organize • No past, hisory, or religon of their own • Connection to Women in Sports • Sports are a man’s world • Female participation against traditional female roles and role as “Other” • Masculinization of Female Competitors • Sports ability to help women move out of the role of being the “Other”

  8. Method • Quantitative Research • Solicit First Year Student • Classroom visits • Information given about the survey • Handed a flyer with directions to the on-line survey • Information posted on Student Forum

  9. Method Tables

  10. Findings

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