Katherine Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3741873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wheaton College - Illinois |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7246-7804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The association between objective and perceived bird diversity and the mental health of minoritized communities living near disused parks in Detroit
The role of biodiversity in the relationship between nature and human health remains unresolved, especially in underrepresented communities. • Potential associations between bird diversity and mental health, and the moderating effect of nature relatedness, were explored in Detroit, USA. • Objective and perceived bird diversity had a positive association with mental health. • Community-led greenspace restoration in Detroit that promotes diverse bi…
Race and the Body
This entry explores how racial meanings and identities are attributed to people on the basis of bodily differences. Beginning with “race science” and eugenic ideologies, such attributions tend to treat surface‐level characteristics (skin color, facial features, etc.) as indicative of deeper between‐group differences and degrees of evolutionary “fitness” or primitivity. Today, those beliefs lead to unequal treatment in settings ranging from school…
Toward a Sociology of the Body
This essay is designed to establish the theoretical framework and goals for The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, foremost of which is delineating what a sociology of the body must entail. Critically, a sociology of the body must recognize bodies as both cause and consequence of societal forces. It must also investigate how bodies change in response to their surroundings: not just through the centuries-long process of evolu…
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges the view that bodies belong to the category of “nature” and are biological, essential, and pre-social. It argues instead that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area of study for sociologists. The Handbook works to clarify the scope of this topic and display the innovations of research within the field. The vo…
Won't Someone Think of the Children?”
Women, infants, and (fat) children
The author examines “childhood obesity epidemic” discourse—and its surprising absence—in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. As a program tasked with improving health among low-income mothers and children through nutritional supplements and education, WIC policy formally seeks to eliminate “obesity;” in day-to-day practice, however, WIC nutritionists almost never tell clients to lose weight or call children “overweight” or “obese.” Wh…
Responsible Bodies
While previous scholarship examining the U.S. Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program has focused on its cost-effectiveness and health outcomes, this article analyzes the social implications of WIC policy. Extending theories of neoliberal welfare and biomedicalization, I argue that WIC aims to produce health-conscious, self-surveilling subjects. Primary document analysis and interviews with WIC staff and clients reveal how WIC counselors pursu…
Microblogging about teaching
Social Stratification and the Body
This article introduces the study of social stratification and the body in sociology. Two major fields of social inequality, race and sex, are characterized by visible, physical markers (such as skin tone or body shape) that people use to attribute meaning to the bodies of those around them. Class, on the other hand, offers far subtler bodily clues to the casual observer. Drawing on studies of racialized and sexed bodies, this article derives two…
The Unequal Weight of Discrimination
At present, most work examining the well-documented relationship between social inequality and body size treats fatness as an effect, caused either by some factor that determines weight and social class simultaneously, or by social class itself. However, the relationship between weight and social inequality is more complex than these explanations suggest. Recent studies by John Cawley (2004) and Charles Baum and William Ford (2004) suggest that f…
The Unequal Weight of Discrimination
At present, most work examining the well-documented relationship between social inequality and body size treats fatness as an effect, caused either by some factor that determines weight and social class simultaneously, or by social class itself. However, the relationship between weight and social inequality is more complex than these explanations suggest. Recent studies by John Cawley (2004) and Charles Baum and William Ford (2004) suggest that f…
Social Stratification and the Body
This article introduces the study of social stratification and the body in sociology. Two major fields of social inequality, race and sex, are characterized by visible, physical markers (such as skin tone or body shape) that people use to attribute meaning to the bodies of those around them. Class, on the other hand, offers far subtler bodily clues to the casual observer. Drawing on studies of racialized and sexed bodies, this article derives two…
Responsible Bodies
While previous scholarship examining the U.S. Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program has focused on its cost-effectiveness and health outcomes, this article analyzes the social implications of WIC policy. Extending theories of neoliberal welfare and biomedicalization, I argue that WIC aims to produce health-conscious, self-surveilling subjects. Primary document analysis and interviews with WIC staff and clients reveal how WIC counselors pursu…
Won't Someone Think of the Children?”
The Unequal Weight of Discrimination
At present, most work examining the well-documented relationship between social inequality and body size treats fatness as an effect, caused either by some factor that determines weight and social class simultaneously, or by social class itself. However, the relationship between weight and social inequality is more complex than these explanations suggest. Recent studies by John Cawley (2004) and Charles Baum and William Ford (2004) suggest that f…
Social Stratification and the Body
This article introduces the study of social stratification and the body in sociology. Two major fields of social inequality, race and sex, are characterized by visible, physical markers (such as skin tone or body shape) that people use to attribute meaning to the bodies of those around them. Class, on the other hand, offers far subtler bodily clues to the casual observer. Drawing on studies of racialized and sexed bodies, this article derives two…
Microblogging about teaching
Responsible Bodies
While previous scholarship examining the U.S. Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program has focused on its cost-effectiveness and health outcomes, this article analyzes the social implications of WIC policy. Extending theories of neoliberal welfare and biomedicalization, I argue that WIC aims to produce health-conscious, self-surveilling subjects. Primary document analysis and interviews with WIC staff and clients reveal how WIC counselors pursu…
Women, infants, and (fat) children
The author examines “childhood obesity epidemic” discourse—and its surprising absence—in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. As a program tasked with improving health among low-income mothers and children through nutritional supplements and education, WIC policy formally seeks to eliminate “obesity;” in day-to-day practice, however, WIC nutritionists almost never tell clients to lose weight or call children “overweight” or “obese.” Wh…
Won't Someone Think of the Children?”
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges the view that bodies belong to the category of “nature” and are biological, essential, and pre-social. It argues instead that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area of study for sociologists. The Handbook works to clarify the scope of this topic and display the innovations of research within the field. The vo…
Toward a Sociology of the Body
This essay is designed to establish the theoretical framework and goals for The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, foremost of which is delineating what a sociology of the body must entail. Critically, a sociology of the body must recognize bodies as both cause and consequence of societal forces. It must also investigate how bodies change in response to their surroundings: not just through the centuries-long process of evolu…
Race and the Body
This entry explores how racial meanings and identities are attributed to people on the basis of bodily differences. Beginning with “race science” and eugenic ideologies, such attributions tend to treat surface‐level characteristics (skin color, facial features, etc.) as indicative of deeper between‐group differences and degrees of evolutionary “fitness” or primitivity. Today, those beliefs lead to unequal treatment in settings ranging from school…
The association between objective and perceived bird diversity and the mental health of minoritized communities living near disused parks in Detroit
The role of biodiversity in the relationship between nature and human health remains unresolved, especially in underrepresented communities. • Potential associations between bird diversity and mental health, and the moderating effect of nature relatedness, were explored in Detroit, USA. • Objective and perceived bird diversity had a positive association with mental health. • Community-led greenspace restoration in Detroit that promotes diverse bi…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)