Kylie Parrotta
Biographic Data
| ID | 226595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kylie Parrotta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kylie |
| FAMILY NAME | Parrotta |
| SIGNATURE | PARROTTA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delaware State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-8948-9991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Self‐care rhetoric and institutional culpability: Theorizing the academy and intellectual labor
Self‐care, a ubiquitous concept commonly touted as the solution to an array of modern‐day problems, implies unapologetic selfishness aimed at preserving mental, emotional, and physical health. The overtly individualistic framing in its most common usage—the centering of oneself for the sake of oneself—obscures power relations and structural/institutional inequalities that create the need for self‐care. To deal with difficult work or family lives,…
Student Perspectives on Trauma-Informed Education Practices in Criminal Justice and Forensic Science
As educators who teach about sexual violence and victimization in our criminal justice and forensic science courses and a psychology undergraduate who was learning about these topics, we were curious whether and how the hashtag #MeToo is changing classroom dynamics. We examine two trauma informed education activities used in classes at two different universities to assess students’ attitudes towards learning about violence and victimization in th…
Students teach sex education: Introducing alternative conceptions of sexuality
In this paper, we describe an exercise that challenges hetero-normative and sexist notions of sexuality, allowing students to envision alternative models. Research shows how active learning eases student anxiety over challenging or threatening material. After reading Jessica Fields' Risky Lessons and Waskul, Vannini, and Weisen's article entitled 'Women and Their Clitoris', students designed a sex education curriculum that challenges conventional…
Making Marx Accessible: Understanding Alienated Labor through Experiential Learning
We introduce an exercise designed to make Marx’s theory of alienated labor accessible to students in a Sociology of Work class. Through a role-playing activity where students create and sell goods under conditions of both alienated and nonalienated labor, students actually experience the different material and social consequences of these conditions. The article briefly describes the exercise and shows how it can be used with Marx’s original writ…
The Use of Gendered Narratives in the Courtroom: Constructing an Identity Worthy of Leniency
In this article, we investigate interactional processes-the gendered construction and negotiation of creditable identities-that lend themselves to differential sentencing outcomes. Based on observations in two courts in North Carolina, we argue that defense attorneys attempt to construct identities of defendants as worthy of leniency. They do so by developing gendered narratives that cast men as good workers, good providers, and as victims of the…
Who's to Blame? The Identity Talk of Welfare-To-Work Program Managers
U.S. welfare policy and devolution involve contradictions in implementing financial assistance as welfare workers must attempt to place clients with severe barriers in formal employment while meeting restrictive requirements. In interviews with North Carolina welfare-to-work program managers, the authors find that they engage in identity talk to construct images of themselves as effective workers despite these contradictions, using the symbolic i…
Sociology of the Prison Classroom: Marginalized Identities and Sociological Imaginations behind Bars
The authors use sociology of the college classroom to analyze their experiences as feminists teaching sociology courses in the “unconventional setting” of prison. Reflective writing was used to chronicle experiences in the classes. They apply the concepts of doing gender, interaction order, and emotion work to the prison classroom. Based on their analysis, the authors examine the challenges and opportunities for critical education in prison. They…
Extraterrestrials and Generic Social Processes: Minimizing Resistance in Teaching the Reproduction of Inequality
In this article, the authors describe a class activity that uses a combination of strategies to overcome obstacles students face when learning about the reproduction of inequality in everyday life. Based on Schwalbe et al.’s (2000) piece on “generic social processes,” and following the idea of “making the strange familiar and the familiar strange,” the authors had students pretend to be aliens to investigate how generic social processes are used …
The Use of Gendered Narratives in the Courtroom: Constructing an Identity Worthy of Leniency
In this article, we investigate interactional processes-the gendered construction and negotiation of creditable identities-that lend themselves to differential sentencing outcomes. Based on observations in two courts in North Carolina, we argue that defense attorneys attempt to construct identities of defendants as worthy of leniency. They do so by developing gendered narratives that cast men as good workers, good providers, and as victims of the…
Who's to Blame? The Identity Talk of Welfare-To-Work Program Managers
U.S. welfare policy and devolution involve contradictions in implementing financial assistance as welfare workers must attempt to place clients with severe barriers in formal employment while meeting restrictive requirements. In interviews with North Carolina welfare-to-work program managers, the authors find that they engage in identity talk to construct images of themselves as effective workers despite these contradictions, using the symbolic i…
Extraterrestrials and Generic Social Processes: Minimizing Resistance in Teaching the Reproduction of Inequality
In this article, the authors describe a class activity that uses a combination of strategies to overcome obstacles students face when learning about the reproduction of inequality in everyday life. Based on Schwalbe et al.’s (2000) piece on “generic social processes,” and following the idea of “making the strange familiar and the familiar strange,” the authors had students pretend to be aliens to investigate how generic social processes are used …
Making Marx Accessible: Understanding Alienated Labor through Experiential Learning
We introduce an exercise designed to make Marx’s theory of alienated labor accessible to students in a Sociology of Work class. Through a role-playing activity where students create and sell goods under conditions of both alienated and nonalienated labor, students actually experience the different material and social consequences of these conditions. The article briefly describes the exercise and shows how it can be used with Marx’s original writ…
Sociology of the Prison Classroom: Marginalized Identities and Sociological Imaginations behind Bars
The authors use sociology of the college classroom to analyze their experiences as feminists teaching sociology courses in the “unconventional setting” of prison. Reflective writing was used to chronicle experiences in the classes. They apply the concepts of doing gender, interaction order, and emotion work to the prison classroom. Based on their analysis, the authors examine the challenges and opportunities for critical education in prison. They…
Self‐care rhetoric and institutional culpability: Theorizing the academy and intellectual labor
Self‐care, a ubiquitous concept commonly touted as the solution to an array of modern‐day problems, implies unapologetic selfishness aimed at preserving mental, emotional, and physical health. The overtly individualistic framing in its most common usage—the centering of oneself for the sake of oneself—obscures power relations and structural/institutional inequalities that create the need for self‐care. To deal with difficult work or family lives,…
Sociology of the Prison Classroom: Marginalized Identities and Sociological Imaginations behind Bars
The authors use sociology of the college classroom to analyze their experiences as feminists teaching sociology courses in the “unconventional setting” of prison. Reflective writing was used to chronicle experiences in the classes. They apply the concepts of doing gender, interaction order, and emotion work to the prison classroom. Based on their analysis, the authors examine the challenges and opportunities for critical education in prison. They…
Extraterrestrials and Generic Social Processes: Minimizing Resistance in Teaching the Reproduction of Inequality
In this article, the authors describe a class activity that uses a combination of strategies to overcome obstacles students face when learning about the reproduction of inequality in everyday life. Based on Schwalbe et al.’s (2000) piece on “generic social processes,” and following the idea of “making the strange familiar and the familiar strange,” the authors had students pretend to be aliens to investigate how generic social processes are used …
Who's to Blame? The Identity Talk of Welfare-To-Work Program Managers
U.S. welfare policy and devolution involve contradictions in implementing financial assistance as welfare workers must attempt to place clients with severe barriers in formal employment while meeting restrictive requirements. In interviews with North Carolina welfare-to-work program managers, the authors find that they engage in identity talk to construct images of themselves as effective workers despite these contradictions, using the symbolic i…
Making Marx Accessible: Understanding Alienated Labor through Experiential Learning
We introduce an exercise designed to make Marx’s theory of alienated labor accessible to students in a Sociology of Work class. Through a role-playing activity where students create and sell goods under conditions of both alienated and nonalienated labor, students actually experience the different material and social consequences of these conditions. The article briefly describes the exercise and shows how it can be used with Marx’s original writ…
The Use of Gendered Narratives in the Courtroom: Constructing an Identity Worthy of Leniency
In this article, we investigate interactional processes-the gendered construction and negotiation of creditable identities-that lend themselves to differential sentencing outcomes. Based on observations in two courts in North Carolina, we argue that defense attorneys attempt to construct identities of defendants as worthy of leniency. They do so by developing gendered narratives that cast men as good workers, good providers, and as victims of the…
Students teach sex education: Introducing alternative conceptions of sexuality
In this paper, we describe an exercise that challenges hetero-normative and sexist notions of sexuality, allowing students to envision alternative models. Research shows how active learning eases student anxiety over challenging or threatening material. After reading Jessica Fields' Risky Lessons and Waskul, Vannini, and Weisen's article entitled 'Women and Their Clitoris', students designed a sex education curriculum that challenges conventional…
Student Perspectives on Trauma-Informed Education Practices in Criminal Justice and Forensic Science
As educators who teach about sexual violence and victimization in our criminal justice and forensic science courses and a psychology undergraduate who was learning about these topics, we were curious whether and how the hashtag #MeToo is changing classroom dynamics. We examine two trauma informed education activities used in classes at two different universities to assess students’ attitudes towards learning about violence and victimization in th…
Self‐care rhetoric and institutional culpability: Theorizing the academy and intellectual labor
Self‐care, a ubiquitous concept commonly touted as the solution to an array of modern‐day problems, implies unapologetic selfishness aimed at preserving mental, emotional, and physical health. The overtly individualistic framing in its most common usage—the centering of oneself for the sake of oneself—obscures power relations and structural/institutional inequalities that create the need for self‐care. To deal with difficult work or family lives,…
Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)