Mathilde Cecchini
Biographic Data
| ID | 379744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mathilde Cecchini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mathilde |
| FAMILY NAME | Cecchini |
| SIGNATURE | CECCHINI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3946-9116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘So, the Moral Is: Do Not Take Nude Pictures’: Paternalism, Discrimination and Negative Social Sanctions
Sometimes, adults with educational roles, for example, teachers or parents, in particular paternalise children from certain groups with the motive of protecting them from unjustified social sanctions. This paper analyses a case where a teacher seeks to prevent girls, not boys, from sharing intimate pictures of themselves. We argue that the case represents an example of the broader phenomenon of paternalistic discrimination . Based on an analysis …
Conceptualizing stereotype articulation in frontline work
In this article, we develop a conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing what we call stereotype articulation—the practice and process of expressing and conveying stereotypes in social interactions. Building the theoretical insights from analysis of empirical material from an ethnographic study of encounters between schoolteachers and pupils in Danish schools, we find school teachers articulate stereotypes about groups of students in di…
Acceptable or Not? Understanding Attitudes Toward Citizens' Discrimination Against Frontline Workers
Research shows that frontline workers often discriminate based on race or ethnicity. However, citizens can also display discriminatory behavior—for instance, by requesting service only from workers of the same ethnic or religious background. This discrimination exercised by citizens toward frontline employees remains underexplored. Building on research on citizen–state interactions, discrimination, and political ideology, this study examines when…
It’s a Gender Thing”—The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation
In this article, we study wrongdoing features of discrimination. We develop grounded moral theory as an analytical tool to explore the wrongdoing of stereotype articulations and apply that to cases of stereotype articulation by teachers in primary school. Since cases of wrongful discrimination refer to stereotypes—such as ethnicity and gender—articulations of these stereotypes will expose the wrongdoing features of discrimination. Moreover, focus…
Same position, different roles? How professional, organizational, and public policy logics shape frontline managers’ role conceptions
This article integrates street-level bureaucracy and institutional logics theory to investigate how co-existing institutional logics shape frontline managers’ understanding of their managerial role. Based on 21 narrative interviews with managing medical doctors from 11 Danish public hospitals, the analysis shows that, although their formal positions are identical on paper, individual frontline managers understand their role in surprisingly differ…
Elucidating the Social - Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework
The promise of process tracing methods is that they can help us better understand how things work in real-world cases. Despite the many advances in the past two decades, we contend that existing accounts result in either under-socialised accounts in which the moves made by actors are studied while neglecting the social dimension of action, or over-socialised accounts that are so focused on social context that they neglect the causal process of ac…
What Makes a Leader? Leadership Identity and Leadership Behavior among Highly Professionalized Public Leaders
The development of a leadership identity has been argued to be an important determinant for what leaders do. For leaders in highly specialized work environments, the development of a leadership identity has been regarded both in absolute terms and in relation to their professional identity. This study investigates the extent to which leadership identity in absolute and relative terms explains various types of leadership behaviors. Based on panel …
Into the Unknown: Conceptualizing the Experience of Uncertainty in Citizen–State Interactions
It is often argued that uncertainty is an inherent characteristic of citizen–state interactions. It is therefore hardly surprising that many scholars of street-level bureaucracy have studied how frontline workers cope with and make discretionary decisions under uncertain conditions. However, citizens’ experiences of uncertainty have received limited attention in the street-level bureaucracy literature. This article argues that understanding citiz…
Connective and Tactfully Tactical: Connective Tactics and Professional Authority in Doctor-Patient Relationships
Medical authority is often thought to be threatened by lay access to information, but how does professional authority work when citizens have more knowledge and choices? We seek to understand how professional authority works in doctor-patient relationships and what each side does to navigate medical encounters. Our abductive study is relational as it builds on qualitative interviews with both doctors and patients. While doctors and patients each …
The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work
The street-level bureaucracy literature teaches us that frontline workers draw on both policy logics and social, cultural, and personal logics in their work. This has been conceptualized as the state agency narrative and citizen agency narrative, and it is both well documented and well theorized. However, the literature on street-level bureaucracy and frontline work is remarkably silent on how to understand the role of professional knowledge in f…
“I can go teach for 30 minutes, and then I can tell” – The risk work of teachers in Danish secondary schools
Based on an ethnographic study of health promotion and risk prevention in two public schools in Denmark, in this article I explore how schoolteachers carried out health risk work in the context of health promotion initiatives. I found that in order to manage the high degree of uncertainty that this kind of work entails, schoolteachers relied upon understandings of the relationship between social class, gender and ethnicity and of health outcomes …
Is Democracy a Rule by and for Men
Gender Dynamics in Academic Networks - a Narrative Review
Progress towards gender balance among senior faculty in Danish academia remains slow. Although networks are widely recognized as key to career success, studies on the influence of gender on network dynamics and career advancement in academia are scarce. Until now, scholarship has engaged with the topic of gender and networks in organizations through two co-existing, while unrelated, streams of research, namely the social networks literature and t…
Reinforcing and Reproducing Stereotypes? Ethical Considerations When Doing Research on Stereotypes and Stereotyped Reasoning
Many social scientists are interested in studying stereotypes and stereotyped reasoning. This interest often comes from a wish to contribute to creating a more just and equal society. However, when we as scholars study stereotypes and stereotyped reasoning, we risk reproducing and maybe even reinforcing these processes, and thereby harming individuals or groups of individuals. The debates of this ethical issue mainly take the form of general disc…
The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work
The street-level bureaucracy literature teaches us that frontline workers draw on both policy logics and social, cultural, and personal logics in their work. This has been conceptualized as the state agency narrative and citizen agency narrative, and it is both well documented and well theorized. However, the literature on street-level bureaucracy and frontline work is remarkably silent on how to understand the role of professional knowledge in f…
Connective and Tactfully Tactical: Connective Tactics and Professional Authority in Doctor-Patient Relationships
Medical authority is often thought to be threatened by lay access to information, but how does professional authority work when citizens have more knowledge and choices? We seek to understand how professional authority works in doctor-patient relationships and what each side does to navigate medical encounters. Our abductive study is relational as it builds on qualitative interviews with both doctors and patients. While doctors and patients each …
Reinforcing and Reproducing Stereotypes? Ethical Considerations When Doing Research on Stereotypes and Stereotyped Reasoning
Many social scientists are interested in studying stereotypes and stereotyped reasoning. This interest often comes from a wish to contribute to creating a more just and equal society. However, when we as scholars study stereotypes and stereotyped reasoning, we risk reproducing and maybe even reinforcing these processes, and thereby harming individuals or groups of individuals. The debates of this ethical issue mainly take the form of general disc…
Same position, different roles? How professional, organizational, and public policy logics shape frontline managers’ role conceptions
This article integrates street-level bureaucracy and institutional logics theory to investigate how co-existing institutional logics shape frontline managers’ understanding of their managerial role. Based on 21 narrative interviews with managing medical doctors from 11 Danish public hospitals, the analysis shows that, although their formal positions are identical on paper, individual frontline managers understand their role in surprisingly differ…
Elucidating the Social - Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework
The promise of process tracing methods is that they can help us better understand how things work in real-world cases. Despite the many advances in the past two decades, we contend that existing accounts result in either under-socialised accounts in which the moves made by actors are studied while neglecting the social dimension of action, or over-socialised accounts that are so focused on social context that they neglect the causal process of ac…
Gender Dynamics in Academic Networks - a Narrative Review
Progress towards gender balance among senior faculty in Danish academia remains slow. Although networks are widely recognized as key to career success, studies on the influence of gender on network dynamics and career advancement in academia are scarce. Until now, scholarship has engaged with the topic of gender and networks in organizations through two co-existing, while unrelated, streams of research, namely the social networks literature and t…
Reinforcing and Reproducing Stereotypes? Ethical Considerations When Doing Research on Stereotypes and Stereotyped Reasoning
Many social scientists are interested in studying stereotypes and stereotyped reasoning. This interest often comes from a wish to contribute to creating a more just and equal society. However, when we as scholars study stereotypes and stereotyped reasoning, we risk reproducing and maybe even reinforcing these processes, and thereby harming individuals or groups of individuals. The debates of this ethical issue mainly take the form of general disc…
“I can go teach for 30 minutes, and then I can tell” – The risk work of teachers in Danish secondary schools
Based on an ethnographic study of health promotion and risk prevention in two public schools in Denmark, in this article I explore how schoolteachers carried out health risk work in the context of health promotion initiatives. I found that in order to manage the high degree of uncertainty that this kind of work entails, schoolteachers relied upon understandings of the relationship between social class, gender and ethnicity and of health outcomes …
Is Democracy a Rule by and for Men
The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work
The street-level bureaucracy literature teaches us that frontline workers draw on both policy logics and social, cultural, and personal logics in their work. This has been conceptualized as the state agency narrative and citizen agency narrative, and it is both well documented and well theorized. However, the literature on street-level bureaucracy and frontline work is remarkably silent on how to understand the role of professional knowledge in f…
Connective and Tactfully Tactical: Connective Tactics and Professional Authority in Doctor-Patient Relationships
Medical authority is often thought to be threatened by lay access to information, but how does professional authority work when citizens have more knowledge and choices? We seek to understand how professional authority works in doctor-patient relationships and what each side does to navigate medical encounters. Our abductive study is relational as it builds on qualitative interviews with both doctors and patients. While doctors and patients each …
What Makes a Leader? Leadership Identity and Leadership Behavior among Highly Professionalized Public Leaders
The development of a leadership identity has been argued to be an important determinant for what leaders do. For leaders in highly specialized work environments, the development of a leadership identity has been regarded both in absolute terms and in relation to their professional identity. This study investigates the extent to which leadership identity in absolute and relative terms explains various types of leadership behaviors. Based on panel …
Into the Unknown: Conceptualizing the Experience of Uncertainty in Citizen–State Interactions
It is often argued that uncertainty is an inherent characteristic of citizen–state interactions. It is therefore hardly surprising that many scholars of street-level bureaucracy have studied how frontline workers cope with and make discretionary decisions under uncertain conditions. However, citizens’ experiences of uncertainty have received limited attention in the street-level bureaucracy literature. This article argues that understanding citiz…
‘So, the Moral Is: Do Not Take Nude Pictures’: Paternalism, Discrimination and Negative Social Sanctions
Sometimes, adults with educational roles, for example, teachers or parents, in particular paternalise children from certain groups with the motive of protecting them from unjustified social sanctions. This paper analyses a case where a teacher seeks to prevent girls, not boys, from sharing intimate pictures of themselves. We argue that the case represents an example of the broader phenomenon of paternalistic discrimination . Based on an analysis …
Conceptualizing stereotype articulation in frontline work
In this article, we develop a conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing what we call stereotype articulation—the practice and process of expressing and conveying stereotypes in social interactions. Building the theoretical insights from analysis of empirical material from an ethnographic study of encounters between schoolteachers and pupils in Danish schools, we find school teachers articulate stereotypes about groups of students in di…
Acceptable or Not? Understanding Attitudes Toward Citizens' Discrimination Against Frontline Workers
Research shows that frontline workers often discriminate based on race or ethnicity. However, citizens can also display discriminatory behavior—for instance, by requesting service only from workers of the same ethnic or religious background. This discrimination exercised by citizens toward frontline employees remains underexplored. Building on research on citizen–state interactions, discrimination, and political ideology, this study examines when…
It’s a Gender Thing”—The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation
In this article, we study wrongdoing features of discrimination. We develop grounded moral theory as an analytical tool to explore the wrongdoing of stereotype articulations and apply that to cases of stereotype articulation by teachers in primary school. Since cases of wrongful discrimination refer to stereotypes—such as ethnicity and gender—articulations of these stereotypes will expose the wrongdoing features of discrimination. Moreover, focus…
Same position, different roles? How professional, organizational, and public policy logics shape frontline managers’ role conceptions
This article integrates street-level bureaucracy and institutional logics theory to investigate how co-existing institutional logics shape frontline managers’ understanding of their managerial role. Based on 21 narrative interviews with managing medical doctors from 11 Danish public hospitals, the analysis shows that, although their formal positions are identical on paper, individual frontline managers understand their role in surprisingly differ…
Elucidating the Social - Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework
The promise of process tracing methods is that they can help us better understand how things work in real-world cases. Despite the many advances in the past two decades, we contend that existing accounts result in either under-socialised accounts in which the moves made by actors are studied while neglecting the social dimension of action, or over-socialised accounts that are so focused on social context that they neglect the causal process of ac…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works)