Abstract:
The survey focused on the perceptions of the people in the Winneba Municipality about
same-sex relationships in Ghana. The major issues the research investigated were the
general views or perceptions the people have about homosexuality, the people’s support
for the promotion or curtailment of same-sex relationships in Ghana, the people’s support
for or against the legalization of homosexuality in the country and the influence of
religion on the people’s attitude towards homosexuality. To achieve these objectives, data
were collected from 130 respondents using questionnaires and interview guide. The
techniques the researcher employed for sampling respondents for the survey were the
purposeful, probabilistic and the Convenience sampling techniques. The results of this
survey indicate that the perceptions that majority of the respondents’ have about
homosexuality were not positive. The results also show that most of the respondents were
neither in favour of the promotion of same- sex relationships in the country, nor were
they in favour of its legalization. The findings also revealed that religion has a great
influence on the respondents’ perceptions about the practice of homosexuality in Ghana.
Recommendations were made to other researchers who would want to conduct studies in
the area of homosexuality to try and look into the influence of gender on people’s
perceptions about homosexuality, it was also recommended that opinion leaders, policy
makers, the government as well as donor countries to consider the stand of Ghanaians
first before taking any decisions on the legalization of homosexuality in the country.
Description:
A thesis in the in the Department of Social Studies Education, Faculty of Social
Sciences, submitted to the school of Graduate Studies, University of Education,
Winneba in partial fulfilment of the requirements for award the of the Master of
Philosophy (Social Studies) degree.
OCTOBER, 2014
