scholarly journals Making sense of the everyday women rugby player

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Katerina Tovia
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Rugby Player ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Rugby Players

<p>This thesis examines the cultural and social significance of women’s rugby. It attempts to make sense of the experience of the everyday women rugby player at a grass roots level and is an area that has received limited attention in sociology. The purpose of this thesis was to document, explore and reflect upon personal stories and experiences of women rugby players by using qualitative research methods. The participants in the research were 12 women rugby players from different rugby clubs. They were arranged in small focus groups that ran over a period of four weeks where personal stories and experiences were shared and critical reflection of the narratives took place. Common themes identified throughout the research process included the current structure and organisation of women’s rugby that still results in women’s rugby being less valued on and off the field. The stories and experiences revealed the fine line that woman rugby players tread as they try to manage the tension of playing to the ideal image of a rugby player on the field and maintaining their femininity after the game. The findings suggest that the pleasures of rugby found in physicality, roughness, drinking, and associated with masculine culture, are equally pleasurable for these women rugby players. These findings provided insights into the lived experiences of the everyday women’s rugby player at a grass root level. They also suggest that the various experiences of women rugby players, both positive and negative, need to be recognised so that women can be better valued as rugby players rather than as women who just play rugby.</p>

scholarly journals Making sense of the everyday women rugby player

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Katerina Tovia
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Rugby Player ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Rugby Players

<p>This thesis examines the cultural and social significance of women’s rugby. It attempts to make sense of the experience of the everyday women rugby player at a grass roots level and is an area that has received limited attention in sociology. The purpose of this thesis was to document, explore and reflect upon personal stories and experiences of women rugby players by using qualitative research methods. The participants in the research were 12 women rugby players from different rugby clubs. They were arranged in small focus groups that ran over a period of four weeks where personal stories and experiences were shared and critical reflection of the narratives took place. Common themes identified throughout the research process included the current structure and organisation of women’s rugby that still results in women’s rugby being less valued on and off the field. The stories and experiences revealed the fine line that woman rugby players tread as they try to manage the tension of playing to the ideal image of a rugby player on the field and maintaining their femininity after the game. The findings suggest that the pleasures of rugby found in physicality, roughness, drinking, and associated with masculine culture, are equally pleasurable for these women rugby players. These findings provided insights into the lived experiences of the everyday women’s rugby player at a grass root level. They also suggest that the various experiences of women rugby players, both positive and negative, need to be recognised so that women can be better valued as rugby players rather than as women who just play rugby.</p>

scholarly journals The Denouncers: Populism and the Press in Venezuela

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT SAMET
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Recent Attention

AbstractDespite recent attention to the relationship between the media and populist mobilisation in Latin America, there is a misfit between the everyday practices of journalists and the theoretical tools that we have for making sense of these practices. The objective of this article is to help reorient research on populism and the press in Latin America so that it better reflects the grounded practices and autochthonous norms of the region. To that end, I turn to the case of Venezuela, and a practice that has been largely escaped attention from scholars – the use of denuncias.

Web Site Development in Action Research

2005 ◽  
pp. 729-734
Author(s):  
Maximilian C. Forte
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Collaborative Action Research ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
Site Development ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Field Setting ◽  
The Web

Ethnography has traditionally involved the sustained presence of an anthropologist in a physically fixed field setting, intensively engaged with the everyday life of the inhabitants of a given site, typically, a village or other small community. Conventional notions of the field, especially in anthropology which has been the premiere field-based discipline (see Amit, 2000; Gupta & Ferguson, 1997, 1992), involved basic assumptions of boundedness (the field was a strictly delimited physical place); distance (the field was “away,” and often very far away as well); temporality (one entered the field, stayed for a time, and then left); and otherness (a strict categorical and relational distinction between the outsider/ethnographer and the insider/native informant). The key mode of ethnographic engagement in the field was, and is, that of participant observation. When the Internet enters into ethnography, and when ethnography acquires an online dimension either in the research process or in the production of the documentary outputs of research, we end up facing a situation that leads us to reconsider relationships between the researchers and those who are researched. This is especially true of collaborative, action research projects that involve researchers and activists producing materials for the Web.

scholarly journals Some Determinats of Quality of Life in Patients Suffering from Multiple Sclerosis

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivera Rashikj-Canevska ◽  
Natasha Chichevska-Jovanova
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
The People ◽  
Activity Frequency ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Level Of Significance

AbstractPeople with multiple sclerosis are faced with numerous challenges which in turn may affect the things they want to do or have a need to do. Very often, constraints caused by the disease reduce their ability to cope with and meet their responsibilities at home, at work and within a broader community transforming simple daily activities into daily frustrations.The main goal of the research process was to present the life of persons with multiple sclerosis in the Republic of Macedonia, the problems they face every day, and the way they exceed them. We used the methods of structural, descriptive and functional analysis, as well as the method of generalization. We applied data (document) analysis, scaling and inquiry, and as a basic instrument we used a questionnaire composed of a combination of several scaling and index assessments. There was a convenient sample of the research composed of 32 persons with multiple sclerosis over the age of 18, and the results were obtained by a statistical analysis of the data and application of the combination of chi square tests, with a p<0.05 level of significance.According to the results of the Index of disability, 47% of the people with multiple sclerosis have limited independence in providing daily activities leading up to 31% of the examinees with rare participation in the everyday social activities, the result obtained by the Frenchay Index of activities. We can conclude that the Index of disability is higher with older respondents and it is often followed by a drop of the daily activity frequency.

scholarly journals An introductory analysis as to the influence of lower-body power on multidirectional speed in collegiate female rugby players

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 113-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Lockie ◽  
Ashley J. Orjalo ◽  
Victoria L. Amran ◽  
Deshaun L. Davis ◽  
Fabrice G. Risso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vertical Jump ◽  
Team Sport ◽  
Rugby Player ◽  
Lower Body ◽  
Change Of Direction ◽  
Speed Test ◽  
Speed Performance ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Rugby Players ◽  
Lower Body Power

AbstractThis study investigated relationships between lower-body power, measured by a vertical jump (VJ) and standing broad jump (SBJ), with multidirectional speed in collegiate female rugby players. The rugby player data was compared to that of general team sport athletes to ascertain whether there were characteristics specific to collegiate rugby players. Multi-directional speed was measured by a 20-meter (m) sprint (0-5, 0-10, 0-20 m intervals) and 505 change-of-direction speed test. Eight rugby players and eight team sport athletes completed all tests. Spearman’s correlations calculated relationships between the VJ and SBJ with the speed tests, and stepwise multiple regressions determined whether the jump tests predicted speed performance (p≤ 0.05). For the rugby players, the VJ correlated with the 0-20 m interval (r = −0.73). The SBJ correlated with the 0-5 and 0-10 m intervals, and the left-leg 505 (r = −0.71 to −0.88), and predicted 0-5 m and left-leg 505 time (r2= 0.50-0.58). For the team sport athletes, only the VJ correlated with left-leg 505 (r = −0.80), and predicted left- and right-leg 505 times (r2= 0.61-0.69). The results suggest that horizontal power measured by a SBJ has a greater contribution to multidirectional speed in collegiate female rugby players.

scholarly journals The Feeling of Numbers: Emotions in Everyday Engagements with Data and Their Visualisation

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 830-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kennedy ◽  
Rosemary Lucy Hill
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship

This article highlights the role that emotions play in engagements with data and their visualisation. To date, the relationship between data and emotions has rarely been noted, in part because data studies have not attended to everyday engagements with data. We draw on an empirical study to show a wide range of emotional engagements with diverse aspects of data and their visualisation, and so demonstrate the importance of emotions as vital components of making sense of data. We nuance the argument that regimes of datafication, in which numbers, metrics and statistics dominate, are characterised by a renewed faith in objectivity and rationality, arguing that in datafied times, it is not only numbers but also the feeling of numbers that is important. We build on the sociology of (a) emotions and (b) the everyday to do this, and in so doing, we contribute to the development of a sociology of data.

scholarly journals Using Constructivist Case Study Methodology to Understand Community Development Processes: Proposed Methodological Questions to Guide the Research Process

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Lauckner ◽  
Margo Paterson ◽  
Terry Krupa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Often, research projects are presented as final products with the methodologies cleanly outlined and little attention paid to the decision-making processes that led to the chosen approach. Limited attention paid to these decision-making processes perpetuates a sense of mystery about qualitative approaches, particularly for new researchers who will likely encounter dilemmas and uncertainties in their research. This paper presents a series of questions that assisted one Ph.D. student in making key methodological choices during her research journey. In this study, a collective case study design informed by constructivist grounded theory data analysis methods was used to develop a framework of community development from an occupational therapy perspective. Ten methodological questions are proposed regarding research question development, research paradigm, design and analysis, and trustworthiness. Drawing on examples from this research project, these questions are used to explicate the decisions made “behind the scenes”, with the intention of providing both theoretical and practical guidance to others embarking on similar research journeys.

scholarly journals Room for Fear: Using Our Own Personal Stories in Teacher Education

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jane Harkins ◽  
Michelle Forrest ◽  
Terrah Keener
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Pedagogical Strategy ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

In this paper, we explore how stories can serve as a pedagogical strategy in pre-service teacher education. Sharing concerns for students facing the complexities of today’s classrooms evoked memories of moments from our own early years as teachers. Making sense of our fears many years later, led to the recognition that our students are facing similar situations. Through the exploration of our stories we demonstrate how we have gained insights into teaching and begun to make meaning from our experiences. Key to these stories is a sense of beliefs being disrupted by a fear of teaching.

scholarly journals Living in Uncertain Times: Experiences of Menopause and Reproductive Aging

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-268
Author(s):  
Heather Dillaway
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Reproductive Aging ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Physical Change ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Family Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Life Course Transition

Abstract This chapter explores the everyday experiences of women living in and passing through the stages of perimenopause and menopause, a transition that brings both physical change and identity change. Dillaway approaches this subject by examining the myriad uncertainties that women face during this transition, attributing many of them to confusion around the definitions of perimenopause and menopause; ambiguous signs and symptoms; conflicted feelings about ageing; and reflections on both previous and current motherhood and family experiences. Women think about and navigate these uncertainties in varied ways, Dillaway says, and she concludes that part of the everyday experience of this reproductive- and life-course transition is learning to live in and with uncertainty.

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