Memo #8 Data Collection
Through a series of informal interviews and surveys with collegiate and youth soccer coaches, I analyzed the interview responses and linked to my personal coaching experience, my professional journal, and business blog, to create discussion about social construction of gender in soccer field through collegiate and youth coaches’ viewpoints. Qualitative data analysis, open-ended questions, informal interviews, and participants observation is used in this ethnographic study. Informal Interviews were used to explore and understand in-depth coaches’ personal opinions, experiences, and perspectives. This study used three questions interview guide that was organically introduced into informal conversation with participants. The interviews went beyond the guide questions and gave an array of opinions, allowing participants to give personal insights, as well allowing myself to ask to follow up and complementary questions. Initially, interviews were performed in a face-face matter. However,...