Emily Meanwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 252211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Meanwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Meanwell |
| SIGNATURE | MEANWELL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1718-8279 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Spectrum of Support
Objective This study investigated how parents of autistic college students are involved in preparing their students for college and in their college lives, how their involvement is affected by student, family, and institutional characteristics, and how they balance their involvement with support for autonomy. Background Prior research on parental involvement in the lives of college students relies on samples of students without disabilities and, …
An 'Eye For an Eye' Versus 'Turning The Other Cheek'? The Status Consequences of Revenge and Forgiveness in Intergroup Conflict
Conflict between groups plays a powerful role in shaping social interaction within groups. Within groups, social status-respect, prestige, and deference-organizes, motivates, and stratifies social interaction. Yet, studies exploring how conflict between groups shapes social status within groups are relatively rare. We argue that intergroup conflict creates opportunities for individuals to gain or lose status by demonstrating group commitment. We …
To Forgive Is Divine? Morality and the Status Value of Intergroup Revenge and Forgiveness
Intergroup conflict is a costly and persistent aspect of social life, and one that often carries great moral significance for those who participate in it. Ostensibly moral behaviors can provide a path to social status in groups, as when self-sacrificing in-group members gain respect and prestige relative to their peers. This article bridges these two ideas to examine the perceived morality and status worthiness of intergroup revenge and forgivene…
By Default
Mothers did a disproportionate share of the child care during the COVID-19 pandemic-an arrangement that negatively impacted their careers, relationships, and well-being. How did mothers account for these unequal roles? Through interviews and surveys with 55 mothers (and 14 fathers) in different-sex, prepandemic dual-earner couples, we found that mothers (and fathers) justified unequal parenting arrangements based on gendered structural and cultur…
Accountability as an Inhabited Institution
This paper examines the failed attempt to reauthorize the American educational law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2007. Drawing on existing research on cultural processes of policymaking and insights from inhabited institutionalism, we analyze data from 20 congressional hearings, viewing them as social interactions. We find that hearing participants identified problems with strict accountability policies and, in interpreting those proble…
The Emotional Experience of First-time Teaching
Teaching for the first time can be a challenging but rewarding experience. For first-time graduate student instructors, however, it also officially marks the transition from student to teacher—a process that can be both transformational and emotion-laden. In this article, we use content analysis of 86 first-time sociology graduate student instructors’ reflections on their first semester teaching to explore the emotional aspects of first-time coll…
Who Deserves Good Schools? Cultural Categories of Worth and School Finance Reform
From the standpoint of the existing literature on cultural categories of worthiness or deservingness, school funding equalization presents a paradox: why has a reform targeted at morally deserving children been so difficult to enact? This article investigates cultural constructions of worthiness, which have been shown to affect the debate and implementation of social welfare policies, in this new policy arena. The authors analyze newspaper covera…
Profaning the Past to Salvage the Present
Homelessness presents challenges for maintaining a positive self-concept, and those seeking help from homeless shelters face a particular irony: establishing service-worthiness requires them to present themselves as homeless, not self-sufficient, and genuinely in need of help, yet also morally worthy of that help. How do shelter residents manage this tension and salvage the self within the institutional context of the shelter? A theoretical frame…
Experiencing Homelessness
Homelessness holds a longstanding place on the sociological research agenda, and has become particularly prominent in sociological literature since the 1980s. Recent literature reviews have summarized this research, but have only briefly considered the body of work focused on the experience of homelessness. I use this literature review to provide a more complete summary of this work on the daily lives, activities, subcultures, social relationship…
Human Emotions
Old Paths and New Directions
The study of emotions in the workplace is a vibrant area of research that has grown considerably over the last 25 years. This research has traveled far, but it has not run its course. This article maps the different paths that have been explored, beginning with Hochschild's classic work on emotional labor in the form of surface and deep acting, and charts new directions for future research. We start by reviewing the literature on emotional labor …
By Default
Mothers did a disproportionate share of the child care during the COVID-19 pandemic-an arrangement that negatively impacted their careers, relationships, and well-being. How did mothers account for these unequal roles? Through interviews and surveys with 55 mothers (and 14 fathers) in different-sex, prepandemic dual-earner couples, we found that mothers (and fathers) justified unequal parenting arrangements based on gendered structural and cultur…
Old Paths and New Directions
The study of emotions in the workplace is a vibrant area of research that has grown considerably over the last 25 years. This research has traveled far, but it has not run its course. This article maps the different paths that have been explored, beginning with Hochschild's classic work on emotional labor in the form of surface and deep acting, and charts new directions for future research. We start by reviewing the literature on emotional labor …
Accountability as an Inhabited Institution
This paper examines the failed attempt to reauthorize the American educational law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2007. Drawing on existing research on cultural processes of policymaking and insights from inhabited institutionalism, we analyze data from 20 congressional hearings, viewing them as social interactions. We find that hearing participants identified problems with strict accountability policies and, in interpreting those proble…
Profaning the Past to Salvage the Present
Homelessness presents challenges for maintaining a positive self-concept, and those seeking help from homeless shelters face a particular irony: establishing service-worthiness requires them to present themselves as homeless, not self-sufficient, and genuinely in need of help, yet also morally worthy of that help. How do shelter residents manage this tension and salvage the self within the institutional context of the shelter? A theoretical frame…
The Emotional Experience of First-time Teaching
Teaching for the first time can be a challenging but rewarding experience. For first-time graduate student instructors, however, it also officially marks the transition from student to teacher—a process that can be both transformational and emotion-laden. In this article, we use content analysis of 86 first-time sociology graduate student instructors’ reflections on their first semester teaching to explore the emotional aspects of first-time coll…
To Forgive Is Divine? Morality and the Status Value of Intergroup Revenge and Forgiveness
Intergroup conflict is a costly and persistent aspect of social life, and one that often carries great moral significance for those who participate in it. Ostensibly moral behaviors can provide a path to social status in groups, as when self-sacrificing in-group members gain respect and prestige relative to their peers. This article bridges these two ideas to examine the perceived morality and status worthiness of intergroup revenge and forgivene…
Who Deserves Good Schools? Cultural Categories of Worth and School Finance Reform
From the standpoint of the existing literature on cultural categories of worthiness or deservingness, school funding equalization presents a paradox: why has a reform targeted at morally deserving children been so difficult to enact? This article investigates cultural constructions of worthiness, which have been shown to affect the debate and implementation of social welfare policies, in this new policy arena. The authors analyze newspaper covera…
An 'Eye For an Eye' Versus 'Turning The Other Cheek'? The Status Consequences of Revenge and Forgiveness in Intergroup Conflict
Conflict between groups plays a powerful role in shaping social interaction within groups. Within groups, social status-respect, prestige, and deference-organizes, motivates, and stratifies social interaction. Yet, studies exploring how conflict between groups shapes social status within groups are relatively rare. We argue that intergroup conflict creates opportunities for individuals to gain or lose status by demonstrating group commitment. We …
Human Emotions
Old Paths and New Directions
The study of emotions in the workplace is a vibrant area of research that has grown considerably over the last 25 years. This research has traveled far, but it has not run its course. This article maps the different paths that have been explored, beginning with Hochschild's classic work on emotional labor in the form of surface and deep acting, and charts new directions for future research. We start by reviewing the literature on emotional labor …
Human Emotions
Experiencing Homelessness
Homelessness holds a longstanding place on the sociological research agenda, and has become particularly prominent in sociological literature since the 1980s. Recent literature reviews have summarized this research, but have only briefly considered the body of work focused on the experience of homelessness. I use this literature review to provide a more complete summary of this work on the daily lives, activities, subcultures, social relationship…
Who Deserves Good Schools? Cultural Categories of Worth and School Finance Reform
From the standpoint of the existing literature on cultural categories of worthiness or deservingness, school funding equalization presents a paradox: why has a reform targeted at morally deserving children been so difficult to enact? This article investigates cultural constructions of worthiness, which have been shown to affect the debate and implementation of social welfare policies, in this new policy arena. The authors analyze newspaper covera…
Profaning the Past to Salvage the Present
Homelessness presents challenges for maintaining a positive self-concept, and those seeking help from homeless shelters face a particular irony: establishing service-worthiness requires them to present themselves as homeless, not self-sufficient, and genuinely in need of help, yet also morally worthy of that help. How do shelter residents manage this tension and salvage the self within the institutional context of the shelter? A theoretical frame…
The Emotional Experience of First-time Teaching
Teaching for the first time can be a challenging but rewarding experience. For first-time graduate student instructors, however, it also officially marks the transition from student to teacher—a process that can be both transformational and emotion-laden. In this article, we use content analysis of 86 first-time sociology graduate student instructors’ reflections on their first semester teaching to explore the emotional aspects of first-time coll…
Accountability as an Inhabited Institution
This paper examines the failed attempt to reauthorize the American educational law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2007. Drawing on existing research on cultural processes of policymaking and insights from inhabited institutionalism, we analyze data from 20 congressional hearings, viewing them as social interactions. We find that hearing participants identified problems with strict accountability policies and, in interpreting those proble…
By Default
Mothers did a disproportionate share of the child care during the COVID-19 pandemic-an arrangement that negatively impacted their careers, relationships, and well-being. How did mothers account for these unequal roles? Through interviews and surveys with 55 mothers (and 14 fathers) in different-sex, prepandemic dual-earner couples, we found that mothers (and fathers) justified unequal parenting arrangements based on gendered structural and cultur…
To Forgive Is Divine? Morality and the Status Value of Intergroup Revenge and Forgiveness
Intergroup conflict is a costly and persistent aspect of social life, and one that often carries great moral significance for those who participate in it. Ostensibly moral behaviors can provide a path to social status in groups, as when self-sacrificing in-group members gain respect and prestige relative to their peers. This article bridges these two ideas to examine the perceived morality and status worthiness of intergroup revenge and forgivene…
An 'Eye For an Eye' Versus 'Turning The Other Cheek'? The Status Consequences of Revenge and Forgiveness in Intergroup Conflict
Conflict between groups plays a powerful role in shaping social interaction within groups. Within groups, social status-respect, prestige, and deference-organizes, motivates, and stratifies social interaction. Yet, studies exploring how conflict between groups shapes social status within groups are relatively rare. We argue that intergroup conflict creates opportunities for individuals to gain or lose status by demonstrating group commitment. We …
A Spectrum of Support
Objective This study investigated how parents of autistic college students are involved in preparing their students for college and in their college lives, how their involvement is affected by student, family, and institutional characteristics, and how they balance their involvement with support for autonomy. Background Prior research on parental involvement in the lives of college students relies on samples of students without disabilities and, …
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Emotional Labor in Professions (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)