Mary Nell Trautner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 280488 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mary Nell Trautner |
| PRENOMES | Mary Nell |
| SOBRENOME | Trautner |
| ASSINATURA | TRAUTNER M N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7889-4257 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 229 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The invisibility of inequality
Using data from a diverse sample of workers across blue-collar, white-collar and pink-collar occupations, we explore men’s perceptions of gender issues in the workplace. In doing so, our research sheds light on how gendered workplace structures are understood and rationalized by those who benefit from them. We find that, despite acknowledging some forms of gender disparities, men are more likely to frame gender issues in terms of men’s hardships …
Turning medical problems into legal problems
Sociolegal research has long found that most people “lump” their problems rather than pursue legal remedies. This study examines how social media transforms legal consciousness and mobilization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 100 families who experienced the same birth injury, and 37 legal and medical professionals, we analyze how online communities shape perceptions of medical injury, blame attribution, and legal action. We find that parent…
Race, Gender, and Juvenile Determinism
This article examines intersections of race and gender in young adults’ attitudes toward juvenile offenders. Using original survey data, we first replicate a quantitative model testing race and gender differences in support of punitive treatment for juvenile offenders. We then use qualitative interview data to understand how young adults reconcile their own past offending with deterministic beliefs in racialized and gendered ways. Our findings in…
Justice and Parental Blameworthiness
Nearly 40 children per year die in hot cars in the US. In the aftermath of a “hot car death,” police make decisions about arrests, and prosecutors determine what type of punishment, if any, a parent should face. These cases offer a unique opportunity to compare parents responsible for the accidental death of their children, highlighting the interplay of gender and race in sociolegal responses. By focusing on similar circumstances with differing p…
What's in a Name? Gender & Power in Popular Music, 1960-2019
Media studies reveal that popular culture often objectifies, sexualizes, and degrades women more than men. In song lyrics, these portrayals frequently stem from men's use of slang and nicknames. But what happens when men artists sing about a particular, named woman? Does this differ from how men artists sing about a particular, named man? This study draws on four domains of power conceptualized by Patricial Hill Collins-structural, disciplinary, …
The effects of target vulnerabilities on social movement outcomes
Periods, Penises, and Patriarchy
Although many studies examine gender perceptions among adults, fewer ask children to report on their personal views and experiences of gender. The authors use an open-ended survey to ask middle school, high school, and college students what they think is best and worst about being a boy and a girl to analyze how gender perceptions vary between younger and older children. The authors find that girls' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of be…
Adorning the Female Body
Using survey data collected from college women at three large public U.S. universities, we examine the relationship between feminist identification and the likelihood of engaging in various esthetic body modification practices. Specifically, we test a feminist embodied resistance hypothesis that asserts that compared to women who do not identify as feminist, feminist-identified women are less likely to engage in mainstream practices (e.g., body h…
Gender Goals
A significant part of hegemonic masculinity is proving one's heterosexuality though sexual experiences. Peer pressure to conform is particularly acute for adolescent boys and young men. We analyze interviews with 87 boys in middle school, high school, and college about how their masculinity goals and subsequent achievement of those goals influence their navigation of pressure to engage in sexual relations with girls and women to 'prove' themselve…
Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law
Teaching-infused Graduate Seminars
Even though pedagogy courses in sociology are on the rise, many departments do not offer or require a course on teaching sociology or a teaching proseminar series. However, faculty in such departments do have other options for incorporating and integrating pedagogical issues into their standard curriculum. In this note, I offer one suggestion for incorporating teaching and learning into the curriculum: integrating pedagogy into substantive semina…
Using the Sociological Imagination to Teach about Academic Integrity
The sociological imagination is a useful tool for teaching about plagiarism and academic integrity, and, in turn, academic integrity is a good case to help students learn about the sociological imagination. We present an exercise in which the class discusses reasons for and consequences of dishonest academic behavior and then examines a series of scenarios using the sociological imagination. Students and instructors consider whether each scenario…
What Workers Want Depends
In this article, we identify legal knowledge as a key difference between workers who desire workplace change and those who do not. Based on surveys with 121 day laborers, we find that not all day laborers are equally dissatisfied with their jobs, despite uniformly difficult working conditions. Some day laborers do not want to make any real changes to the day labor industry, while others desire a range of industry changes, from higher wages to gre…
Images of powerful women in the age of 'choice feminism
A number of scholars and journalists have argued that Western culture has become 'sexualized'. Both women and men, they maintain, are highly sexualized in popular media. At the same time, scholars have examined the sexualization of women as part of a broader cultural 'backlash' against the gains of second-wave feminism and women's increasing power in society. We contribute to both of these fields with a longitudinal content analysis of four decad…
Masculinity, Competence, and Health
Like other visible characteristics such as skin color, gender, or age, body size is a diffuse status characteristic that impacts perceptions, interactions, and social outcomes. Studies demonstrate that individuals hold preconceived notions about what it means to be fat and document a long list of negative stereotypes associated with fat individuals, including laziness, unintelligence, and incompetence. Such perceptions have consequences for emplo…
Can a Knowledge Sanctuary also be an Economic Engine? The Marketization of Higher Education as Institutional Boundary Work
Universities, particularly research‐intensive ones, have responded to a variety of external and internal influences by retooling their missions, culture, and organizational structures to generate revenue from market opportunities. This has resulted in the marketization of higher education: organizational practices that blur the boundary between knowledge‐driven and profit‐driven institutions. This blurring has spurred debates and uncertainties ov…
Teaching & Learning Guide for ‘Can a Knowledge Sanctuary also be an Economic Engine? The Marketing of Higher Education as Institutional Boundary Work’
This guide accompanies the following article : Daniel H. Nickolai, Steve G. Hoffman, and Mary Nell Trautner. 2012. ‘Can a Knowledge Sanctuary also be an Economic Engine? The Marketing of Higher Education as Institutional Boundary Work’, Sociology Compass 6(3):205–18. Authors’ introduction The marketing of higher education refers to a structural trend towards the adoption of market‐oriented practices by colleges and universities. These organizatio…
Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone
Judging Books by Their Covers
Sociologists have developed a wide range of pedagogical strategies to facilitate student learning about racial/ethnic, class, and gender inequalities. Despite the growing subdiscipline of the sociology of the body and evidence pointing to the prevalence of inequalities based on physical attractiveness, the pedagogical literature has yet to develop strategies for teaching students about biases based on physical attractiveness. In this article, the…
Tort Reform and Access to Justice
Bringing the Polluters Back In
Environmental justice scholars have suggested that because chemical plants and other hazardous facilities emit more pollutants where they face the least resistance, disadvantaged communities face a special health risk. In trying to determine whether race or income has the bigger impact on a neighborhood's exposure to pollution, however, scholars tend to overlook the facilities themselves and the effect of their characteristics on emissions. In pa…
Students Who Strip
We apply interactionist theories that highlight the contextual nature of stigma and the relational quality of stigmatization to the case of college students who work as topless dancers. We explore how the "toll of stripping" might be mediated by having an alternate, positive identity like "student." Our analysis demonstrates that students who strip are distinctive from other strippers in important ways that stem from their salient, positive ident…
Teaching and Learning Guide for ‘Beauty Work
Authors' Introduction Similar to race, class, and gender, the body is an important signifier that shapes identity, social processes, and life outcomes. In our article, we examine the individual and institutional rewards conferred upon physically attractive individuals and the social stigma and discrimination experienced by the less physically attractive. This body hierarchy is tied in part to the performance of beauty work, including attempts to …
Beauty Work
Physical attractiveness is associated with a number of positive outcomes, including employment benefits such as hiring, wages, and promotion, and is correlated with social and personal rewards such as work satisfaction, positive perceptions of others, and higher self-esteem. As a result, individuals perform various forms of beauty work, thus reproducing and strengthening a social system that privileges youth and attractiveness. In this article, w…
Doing Gender, Doing Class
Organizations are not only gendered; they are also classed-that is, they articulate ideas and presentations of gender that are mediated by class position. This article pursues the idea of organizations as gendered and classed by means of a comparative ethnographic analysis of the performance of sexuality in four exotic dance clubs in the Southwestern United States. Strip clubs construct sexuality to be consistent with client class norms and assum…
Beauty Work
Physical attractiveness is associated with a number of positive outcomes, including employment benefits such as hiring, wages, and promotion, and is correlated with social and personal rewards such as work satisfaction, positive perceptions of others, and higher self-esteem. As a result, individuals perform various forms of beauty work, thus reproducing and strengthening a social system that privileges youth and attractiveness. In this article, w…
Bringing the Polluters Back In
Environmental justice scholars have suggested that because chemical plants and other hazardous facilities emit more pollutants where they face the least resistance, disadvantaged communities face a special health risk. In trying to determine whether race or income has the bigger impact on a neighborhood's exposure to pollution, however, scholars tend to overlook the facilities themselves and the effect of their characteristics on emissions. In pa…
Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone
Students Who Strip
We apply interactionist theories that highlight the contextual nature of stigma and the relational quality of stigmatization to the case of college students who work as topless dancers. We explore how the "toll of stripping" might be mediated by having an alternate, positive identity like "student." Our analysis demonstrates that students who strip are distinctive from other strippers in important ways that stem from their salient, positive ident…
Doing Gender, Doing Class
Organizations are not only gendered; they are also classed-that is, they articulate ideas and presentations of gender that are mediated by class position. This article pursues the idea of organizations as gendered and classed by means of a comparative ethnographic analysis of the performance of sexuality in four exotic dance clubs in the Southwestern United States. Strip clubs construct sexuality to be consistent with client class norms and assum…
Gender Goals
A significant part of hegemonic masculinity is proving one's heterosexuality though sexual experiences. Peer pressure to conform is particularly acute for adolescent boys and young men. We analyze interviews with 87 boys in middle school, high school, and college about how their masculinity goals and subsequent achievement of those goals influence their navigation of pressure to engage in sexual relations with girls and women to 'prove' themselve…
Do Facilities with Distant Headquarters Pollute More? How Civic Engagement Conditions the Environmental Performance of Absentee Managed Plants
Scholars agree that due to advances in transportation and communication technologies, firms can extend their reach and more easily externalize their pollution by setting up plants in far-flung, less regulated areas. They also concur that absentee managed plants or facilities with remote headquarters are rapidly becoming the modal type of industrial organization. However, they have yet to examine the environmental performance of these plants and h…
Using the Sociological Imagination to Teach about Academic Integrity
The sociological imagination is a useful tool for teaching about plagiarism and academic integrity, and, in turn, academic integrity is a good case to help students learn about the sociological imagination. We present an exercise in which the class discusses reasons for and consequences of dishonest academic behavior and then examines a series of scenarios using the sociological imagination. Students and instructors consider whether each scenario…
Images of powerful women in the age of 'choice feminism
A number of scholars and journalists have argued that Western culture has become 'sexualized'. Both women and men, they maintain, are highly sexualized in popular media. At the same time, scholars have examined the sexualization of women as part of a broader cultural 'backlash' against the gains of second-wave feminism and women's increasing power in society. We contribute to both of these fields with a longitudinal content analysis of four decad…
What Workers Want Depends
In this article, we identify legal knowledge as a key difference between workers who desire workplace change and those who do not. Based on surveys with 121 day laborers, we find that not all day laborers are equally dissatisfied with their jobs, despite uniformly difficult working conditions. Some day laborers do not want to make any real changes to the day labor industry, while others desire a range of industry changes, from higher wages to gre…
Tort Reform and Access to Justice
Teaching & Learning Guide for ‘Can a Knowledge Sanctuary also be an Economic Engine? The Marketing of Higher Education as Institutional Boundary Work’
This guide accompanies the following article : Daniel H. Nickolai, Steve G. Hoffman, and Mary Nell Trautner. 2012. ‘Can a Knowledge Sanctuary also be an Economic Engine? The Marketing of Higher Education as Institutional Boundary Work’, Sociology Compass 6(3):205–18. Authors’ introduction The marketing of higher education refers to a structural trend towards the adoption of market‐oriented practices by colleges and universities. These organizatio…
Teaching and Learning Guide for ‘Beauty Work
Authors' Introduction Similar to race, class, and gender, the body is an important signifier that shapes identity, social processes, and life outcomes. In our article, we examine the individual and institutional rewards conferred upon physically attractive individuals and the social stigma and discrimination experienced by the less physically attractive. This body hierarchy is tied in part to the performance of beauty work, including attempts to …
Teaching-infused Graduate Seminars
Even though pedagogy courses in sociology are on the rise, many departments do not offer or require a course on teaching sociology or a teaching proseminar series. However, faculty in such departments do have other options for incorporating and integrating pedagogical issues into their standard curriculum. In this note, I offer one suggestion for incorporating teaching and learning into the curriculum: integrating pedagogy into substantive semina…
Can a Knowledge Sanctuary also be an Economic Engine? The Marketization of Higher Education as Institutional Boundary Work
Universities, particularly research‐intensive ones, have responded to a variety of external and internal influences by retooling their missions, culture, and organizational structures to generate revenue from market opportunities. This has resulted in the marketization of higher education: organizational practices that blur the boundary between knowledge‐driven and profit‐driven institutions. This blurring has spurred debates and uncertainties ov…
Judging Books by Their Covers
Sociologists have developed a wide range of pedagogical strategies to facilitate student learning about racial/ethnic, class, and gender inequalities. Despite the growing subdiscipline of the sociology of the body and evidence pointing to the prevalence of inequalities based on physical attractiveness, the pedagogical literature has yet to develop strategies for teaching students about biases based on physical attractiveness. In this article, the…
Periods, Penises, and Patriarchy
Although many studies examine gender perceptions among adults, fewer ask children to report on their personal views and experiences of gender. The authors use an open-ended survey to ask middle school, high school, and college students what they think is best and worst about being a boy and a girl to analyze how gender perceptions vary between younger and older children. The authors find that girls' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of be…
Masculinity, Competence, and Health
Like other visible characteristics such as skin color, gender, or age, body size is a diffuse status characteristic that impacts perceptions, interactions, and social outcomes. Studies demonstrate that individuals hold preconceived notions about what it means to be fat and document a long list of negative stereotypes associated with fat individuals, including laziness, unintelligence, and incompetence. Such perceptions have consequences for emplo…
Evolution, Gender, and Rape
Do Facilities with Distant Headquarters Pollute More? How Civic Engagement Conditions the Environmental Performance of Absentee Managed Plants
Scholars agree that due to advances in transportation and communication technologies, firms can extend their reach and more easily externalize their pollution by setting up plants in far-flung, less regulated areas. They also concur that absentee managed plants or facilities with remote headquarters are rapidly becoming the modal type of industrial organization. However, they have yet to examine the environmental performance of these plants and h…
Doing Gender, Doing Class
Organizations are not only gendered; they are also classed-that is, they articulate ideas and presentations of gender that are mediated by class position. This article pursues the idea of organizations as gendered and classed by means of a comparative ethnographic analysis of the performance of sexuality in four exotic dance clubs in the Southwestern United States. Strip clubs construct sexuality to be consistent with client class norms and assum…
Teaching and Learning Guide for ‘Beauty Work
Authors' Introduction Similar to race, class, and gender, the body is an important signifier that shapes identity, social processes, and life outcomes. In our article, we examine the individual and institutional rewards conferred upon physically attractive individuals and the social stigma and discrimination experienced by the less physically attractive. This body hierarchy is tied in part to the performance of beauty work, including attempts to …
Beauty Work
Physical attractiveness is associated with a number of positive outcomes, including employment benefits such as hiring, wages, and promotion, and is correlated with social and personal rewards such as work satisfaction, positive perceptions of others, and higher self-esteem. As a result, individuals perform various forms of beauty work, thus reproducing and strengthening a social system that privileges youth and attractiveness. In this article, w…
Bringing the Polluters Back In
Environmental justice scholars have suggested that because chemical plants and other hazardous facilities emit more pollutants where they face the least resistance, disadvantaged communities face a special health risk. In trying to determine whether race or income has the bigger impact on a neighborhood's exposure to pollution, however, scholars tend to overlook the facilities themselves and the effect of their characteristics on emissions. In pa…
Students Who Strip
We apply interactionist theories that highlight the contextual nature of stigma and the relational quality of stigmatization to the case of college students who work as topless dancers. We explore how the "toll of stripping" might be mediated by having an alternate, positive identity like "student." Our analysis demonstrates that students who strip are distinctive from other strippers in important ways that stem from their salient, positive ident…
Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone
Judging Books by Their Covers
Sociologists have developed a wide range of pedagogical strategies to facilitate student learning about racial/ethnic, class, and gender inequalities. Despite the growing subdiscipline of the sociology of the body and evidence pointing to the prevalence of inequalities based on physical attractiveness, the pedagogical literature has yet to develop strategies for teaching students about biases based on physical attractiveness. In this article, the…
Tort Reform and Access to Justice
Can a Knowledge Sanctuary also be an Economic Engine? The Marketization of Higher Education as Institutional Boundary Work
Universities, particularly research‐intensive ones, have responded to a variety of external and internal influences by retooling their missions, culture, and organizational structures to generate revenue from market opportunities. This has resulted in the marketization of higher education: organizational practices that blur the boundary between knowledge‐driven and profit‐driven institutions. This blurring has spurred debates and uncertainties ov…
Teaching & Learning Guide for ‘Can a Knowledge Sanctuary also be an Economic Engine? The Marketing of Higher Education as Institutional Boundary Work’
This guide accompanies the following article : Daniel H. Nickolai, Steve G. Hoffman, and Mary Nell Trautner. 2012. ‘Can a Knowledge Sanctuary also be an Economic Engine? The Marketing of Higher Education as Institutional Boundary Work’, Sociology Compass 6(3):205–18. Authors’ introduction The marketing of higher education refers to a structural trend towards the adoption of market‐oriented practices by colleges and universities. These organizatio…
Using the Sociological Imagination to Teach about Academic Integrity
The sociological imagination is a useful tool for teaching about plagiarism and academic integrity, and, in turn, academic integrity is a good case to help students learn about the sociological imagination. We present an exercise in which the class discusses reasons for and consequences of dishonest academic behavior and then examines a series of scenarios using the sociological imagination. Students and instructors consider whether each scenario…
What Workers Want Depends
In this article, we identify legal knowledge as a key difference between workers who desire workplace change and those who do not. Based on surveys with 121 day laborers, we find that not all day laborers are equally dissatisfied with their jobs, despite uniformly difficult working conditions. Some day laborers do not want to make any real changes to the day labor industry, while others desire a range of industry changes, from higher wages to gre…
Images of powerful women in the age of 'choice feminism
A number of scholars and journalists have argued that Western culture has become 'sexualized'. Both women and men, they maintain, are highly sexualized in popular media. At the same time, scholars have examined the sexualization of women as part of a broader cultural 'backlash' against the gains of second-wave feminism and women's increasing power in society. We contribute to both of these fields with a longitudinal content analysis of four decad…
Masculinity, Competence, and Health
Like other visible characteristics such as skin color, gender, or age, body size is a diffuse status characteristic that impacts perceptions, interactions, and social outcomes. Studies demonstrate that individuals hold preconceived notions about what it means to be fat and document a long list of negative stereotypes associated with fat individuals, including laziness, unintelligence, and incompetence. Such perceptions have consequences for emplo…
Teaching-infused Graduate Seminars
Even though pedagogy courses in sociology are on the rise, many departments do not offer or require a course on teaching sociology or a teaching proseminar series. However, faculty in such departments do have other options for incorporating and integrating pedagogical issues into their standard curriculum. In this note, I offer one suggestion for incorporating teaching and learning into the curriculum: integrating pedagogy into substantive semina…
Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law
Gender Goals
A significant part of hegemonic masculinity is proving one's heterosexuality though sexual experiences. Peer pressure to conform is particularly acute for adolescent boys and young men. We analyze interviews with 87 boys in middle school, high school, and college about how their masculinity goals and subsequent achievement of those goals influence their navigation of pressure to engage in sexual relations with girls and women to 'prove' themselve…
Adorning the Female Body
Using survey data collected from college women at three large public U.S. universities, we examine the relationship between feminist identification and the likelihood of engaging in various esthetic body modification practices. Specifically, we test a feminist embodied resistance hypothesis that asserts that compared to women who do not identify as feminist, feminist-identified women are less likely to engage in mainstream practices (e.g., body h…
The effects of target vulnerabilities on social movement outcomes
Periods, Penises, and Patriarchy
Although many studies examine gender perceptions among adults, fewer ask children to report on their personal views and experiences of gender. The authors use an open-ended survey to ask middle school, high school, and college students what they think is best and worst about being a boy and a girl to analyze how gender perceptions vary between younger and older children. The authors find that girls' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of be…
Race, Gender, and Juvenile Determinism
This article examines intersections of race and gender in young adults’ attitudes toward juvenile offenders. Using original survey data, we first replicate a quantitative model testing race and gender differences in support of punitive treatment for juvenile offenders. We then use qualitative interview data to understand how young adults reconcile their own past offending with deterministic beliefs in racialized and gendered ways. Our findings in…
Justice and Parental Blameworthiness
Nearly 40 children per year die in hot cars in the US. In the aftermath of a “hot car death,” police make decisions about arrests, and prosecutors determine what type of punishment, if any, a parent should face. These cases offer a unique opportunity to compare parents responsible for the accidental death of their children, highlighting the interplay of gender and race in sociolegal responses. By focusing on similar circumstances with differing p…
What's in a Name? Gender & Power in Popular Music, 1960-2019
Media studies reveal that popular culture often objectifies, sexualizes, and degrades women more than men. In song lyrics, these portrayals frequently stem from men's use of slang and nicknames. But what happens when men artists sing about a particular, named woman? Does this differ from how men artists sing about a particular, named man? This study draws on four domains of power conceptualized by Patricial Hill Collins-structural, disciplinary, …
Sociology (19 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (6 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras)