Amy E Traver
Biographic Data
| ID | 215731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy E Traver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy E |
| FAMILY NAME | Traver |
| SIGNATURE | TRAVER A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: Teaching and Learning a Humanistic Sociology
Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York
Contextualizing Developmental Math Content into Introduction to Sociology in Community Colleges
Across community colleges in the United States, most students place into a developmental math course that they never pass. This can leave them without the math skills necessary to make informed decisions in major areas of social life and the college credential required for participation in growing sectors of our economy. One strategy for improving community college students’ pass rate in developmental math courses is the contextualization of deve…
How Do We Integrate Students’ Vocational Goals into Introduction to Sociology Curricula, and What Are the Effects of Doing So
President Obama’s America’s College Promise proposal has brought renewed attention to community colleges’ capacity to connect the college and career aspirations of today’s undergraduates. Despite this capacity, however, community colleges have historically offered students two distinct educational pathways: a liberal education transfer-oriented program or a terminal vocational program. In the face of this long-standing and ideological divide, som…
Service-Learning at the American Community College
This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning - combining community-based experiential learning with classroom instruction - can best be employed at community colleges.
Medicaid Policies and Practices in US State Prison Systems
Medicaid is an important source of health care coverage for prison-involved populations. From 2011 to 2012, we surveyed state prison system (SPS) policies affecting Medicaid enrollment during incarceration and upon release; 42 of 50 SPSs participated. Upon incarceration, Medicaid benefits were suspended in 9 (21.4%) SPSs and terminated in 28 (66.7%); 27 (64.3%) SPSs screened prisoners for potential Medicaid eligibility. Although many states suppo…
Dancing Around (Dis)Ability: How Nondisabled Girls Are Affected by Participation in a Dance Program for Girls With Disabilities
In this article, we heed lessons from Laurel Richardson's After a Fall: A Sociomedical Sojourn to investigate how nondisabled high school-aged girls are affected by their volunteer experiences in Believe Ballet, a nonprofit organization that provides primary- and secondary-school-aged girls with physical disabilities with the opportunity to dance and perform ballet. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of three academic years of volunteers' …
(Ap)parent Boundaries: Parents' Boundary Work at Cultural Events for Families with Children Adopted from China
The adoption of children from China by American families represents a rich case study for an expanding sociological literature on boundaries: it brings to life many of our most salient borders and highlights their very permeability. This paper represents one aspect of a larger research project on parents' efforts to bridge perceived ethnocultural boundaries within the China adoptive family. Through ethnographic fieldwork and semistructured, in-de…
Home(land) Décor: China Adoptive Parents' Consumption of Chinese Cultural Objects for Display in their Homes
Institutions and organizational change: Reforming New York City’s public school system
This paper reviews New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s education reform agenda, ‘Children first’, in the light of organizational theory. I argue that this reform agenda reflects both coercive and mimetic isomorphism, as Bloomberg uses mayoral control to apply business concepts and practices to New York City’s public school system. Through participant observation in a New York City classroom and the use of secondary data, I highlight those ele…
The New Single Woman
Mentoring Masculinities: Race and Class in the (Re-)Construction of Gender in the USA and the UK
This article explores the empirical and political debates surrounding boys' academic experiences in America and the United Kingdom. It unearths the ways in which boys' problems in school have been blamed on feminism, and how race and class are ignored in both debates. Additionally, this article addresses same-gender mentoring as a remedial, gender-based strategy for the ‘problem’ of boys in schools. We offer a critique of the mentoring of boys, h…
Home(land) Décor: China Adoptive Parents' Consumption of Chinese Cultural Objects for Display in their Homes
Institutions and organizational change: Reforming New York City’s public school system
This paper reviews New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s education reform agenda, ‘Children first’, in the light of organizational theory. I argue that this reform agenda reflects both coercive and mimetic isomorphism, as Bloomberg uses mayoral control to apply business concepts and practices to New York City’s public school system. Through participant observation in a New York City classroom and the use of secondary data, I highlight those ele…
How Do We Integrate Students’ Vocational Goals into Introduction to Sociology Curricula, and What Are the Effects of Doing So
President Obama’s America’s College Promise proposal has brought renewed attention to community colleges’ capacity to connect the college and career aspirations of today’s undergraduates. Despite this capacity, however, community colleges have historically offered students two distinct educational pathways: a liberal education transfer-oriented program or a terminal vocational program. In the face of this long-standing and ideological divide, som…
Contextualizing Developmental Math Content into Introduction to Sociology in Community Colleges
Across community colleges in the United States, most students place into a developmental math course that they never pass. This can leave them without the math skills necessary to make informed decisions in major areas of social life and the college credential required for participation in growing sectors of our economy. One strategy for improving community college students’ pass rate in developmental math courses is the contextualization of deve…
Medicaid Policies and Practices in US State Prison Systems
Medicaid is an important source of health care coverage for prison-involved populations. From 2011 to 2012, we surveyed state prison system (SPS) policies affecting Medicaid enrollment during incarceration and upon release; 42 of 50 SPSs participated. Upon incarceration, Medicaid benefits were suspended in 9 (21.4%) SPSs and terminated in 28 (66.7%); 27 (64.3%) SPSs screened prisoners for potential Medicaid eligibility. Although many states suppo…
Introduction: Teaching and Learning a Humanistic Sociology
Mentoring Masculinities: Race and Class in the (Re-)Construction of Gender in the USA and the UK
This article explores the empirical and political debates surrounding boys' academic experiences in America and the United Kingdom. It unearths the ways in which boys' problems in school have been blamed on feminism, and how race and class are ignored in both debates. Additionally, this article addresses same-gender mentoring as a remedial, gender-based strategy for the ‘problem’ of boys in schools. We offer a critique of the mentoring of boys, h…
Institutions and organizational change: Reforming New York City’s public school system
This paper reviews New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s education reform agenda, ‘Children first’, in the light of organizational theory. I argue that this reform agenda reflects both coercive and mimetic isomorphism, as Bloomberg uses mayoral control to apply business concepts and practices to New York City’s public school system. Through participant observation in a New York City classroom and the use of secondary data, I highlight those ele…
The New Single Woman
(Ap)parent Boundaries: Parents' Boundary Work at Cultural Events for Families with Children Adopted from China
The adoption of children from China by American families represents a rich case study for an expanding sociological literature on boundaries: it brings to life many of our most salient borders and highlights their very permeability. This paper represents one aspect of a larger research project on parents' efforts to bridge perceived ethnocultural boundaries within the China adoptive family. Through ethnographic fieldwork and semistructured, in-de…
Home(land) Décor: China Adoptive Parents' Consumption of Chinese Cultural Objects for Display in their Homes
Service-Learning at the American Community College
This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning - combining community-based experiential learning with classroom instruction - can best be employed at community colleges.
Medicaid Policies and Practices in US State Prison Systems
Medicaid is an important source of health care coverage for prison-involved populations. From 2011 to 2012, we surveyed state prison system (SPS) policies affecting Medicaid enrollment during incarceration and upon release; 42 of 50 SPSs participated. Upon incarceration, Medicaid benefits were suspended in 9 (21.4%) SPSs and terminated in 28 (66.7%); 27 (64.3%) SPSs screened prisoners for potential Medicaid eligibility. Although many states suppo…
Dancing Around (Dis)Ability: How Nondisabled Girls Are Affected by Participation in a Dance Program for Girls With Disabilities
In this article, we heed lessons from Laurel Richardson's After a Fall: A Sociomedical Sojourn to investigate how nondisabled high school-aged girls are affected by their volunteer experiences in Believe Ballet, a nonprofit organization that provides primary- and secondary-school-aged girls with physical disabilities with the opportunity to dance and perform ballet. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of three academic years of volunteers' …
How Do We Integrate Students’ Vocational Goals into Introduction to Sociology Curricula, and What Are the Effects of Doing So
President Obama’s America’s College Promise proposal has brought renewed attention to community colleges’ capacity to connect the college and career aspirations of today’s undergraduates. Despite this capacity, however, community colleges have historically offered students two distinct educational pathways: a liberal education transfer-oriented program or a terminal vocational program. In the face of this long-standing and ideological divide, som…
Contextualizing Developmental Math Content into Introduction to Sociology in Community Colleges
Across community colleges in the United States, most students place into a developmental math course that they never pass. This can leave them without the math skills necessary to make informed decisions in major areas of social life and the college credential required for participation in growing sectors of our economy. One strategy for improving community college students’ pass rate in developmental math courses is the contextualization of deve…
Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York
Introduction: Teaching and Learning a Humanistic Sociology
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)