C J Pascoe
Biographic Data
| ID | 8408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C J Pascoe |
| GIVEN NAMES | C J |
| FAMILY NAME | Pascoe |
| SIGNATURE | PASCOE C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8234-8689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 708 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
In the Name of Love: White Organizations and Racialized Emotions
This article bridges the gap between insights from a theory of racialized organizations and insights from a theory of racialized emotions by asking what role these emotions play in organizations. Drawing on a combined four years of ethnographic data from two predominantly White organizations in the Pacific Northwest - a conservative evangelical mega-church and a progressive public high school - we argue that these two organizations address racial…
A sociology of bullying: Placing youth aggression in social context
In this paper we review the sociological literature on peer aggression among adolescents and demonstrate how it can form the basis of a new subfield in sociology on the subject of bullying. Although sociologists have mostly avoided the term bullying in classic works on adolescent aggression, these studies suggest that institutional social control, status hierarchies and social inequalities provide important social context for youth aggression. Wh…
It’s Getting Difficult to Be a Straight White Man”: Bundled Masculinity Grievances on Reddit
Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
In Dude, You're a Fag, C. J. Pascoe draws on ethnographic research conducted at a high school in California to offer a nuanced and groundbreaking examination of how American boys construct masculinity. Pascoe finds that masculinity is defined primarily through dominance and control, and that any deviation from this norm is labeled "fag." This epithet is not necessarily about homophobia; rather, it is used to police the boundaries of masculinity, …
What to Do with Actual People? Thinking Through a Queer Social Science Method
Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, With a New Preface
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demon…
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
On the Elasticity of Gender Hegemony: Why Hybrid Masculinities Fail to Undermine Gender and Sexual Inequality
No Homo: Gendered Dimensions of Homophobic Epithets Online
Who is a Real Man? The Gender of Trumpism
The rise of Trumpism exemplifies a contest over masculinity, over who qualifies as a “real man.” This contest being waged not only by some obvious actors – President Trump, his supporters and representatives; it is a contest also waged by those who oppose the current administration and are perhaps actively working against the perpetuation of gender inequality. The themes deployed by Trumpists and anti-Trumpists alike address a core component of m…
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
Good Guys Don't Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape
The Boy Problem: Educating Boys in Urban America, 1870-1970
Hybrid Masculinities: New Directions in the Sociology of Men and Masculinities
Hybrid masculinity refers to men's selective incorporation of performances and identity elements associated with marginalized and subordinated masculinities and femininities. We use recent theorization of hybrid masculinities to critically review theory and research that seeks to make sense of contemporary transformations in masculinity. We suggest that research broadly supports three distinct consequences associated with recent changes in perfor…
Notes on a Sociology of Bullying: Young Men's Homophobia as Gender Socialization
Popular and academic discourses frame bullying as something that one, often high-status, homophobic kid directs at another, often lower status, GLB young person, frequently with devastating results. This article unpacks current popular and academic discourses of bullying. In doing so it highlights the important role these aggressive interactions play in boys' gender socialization. Using a case study of homophobic bullying among teenage boys in ad…
Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-ana Body Online
This article details the making of community and bodies in online environments, specifically the online pro-anorexia community. Building community among members of these groups is particularly fraught because tensions over claims to authenticity permeate these groups. Because these are embodied practices and online spaces are presumably disembodied, participants constantly grapple with authenticity, largely through the threat of the 'wannarexic'.…
Studying Young People's New Media Use: Methodological Shifts and Educational Innovations
A lack of good information about what youth are doing with new media stimulates fears and hopes about the relationship between young people and digital technologies. This article focuses on new modes of inquiry into youth new media use, highlighting the challenges, complexities, and opportunities inherent in studying young people's digital cultures. It outlines methodological issues unique to studies of youth and new media, such as accessing popu…
Resource and Risk: Youth Sexuality and New Media Use
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today’s youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-ex…
Wannabes, Goths, and Christians: The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status
The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens after High School
‘Dude, You’re a Fag’: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse
This article argues that American adolescent boys become masculine through the continual repudiation of a ‘fag’ identity. Using insights from sociologists of interaction and post-structural theorists of sexuality this article demonstrates that the fag insult has multiple meanings which are primarily gendered but also sexualized and raced. This article builds on prior analyses of adolescent homophobia by (1) pointing to the limits of an argument t…
Multiple Masculinities: Teenage Boys Talk about Jocks and Gender
Through interviews with 20 teenage boys at two high schools, the author examines the ways in which boys from different school subcultures engage with the most dominantly masculine of the school's peer groups-the Jocks. The author investigates how boys from less "masculine" groups maintain a sense of self as masculine. The boys do this by reworking meanings of group membership and gendered identity to include masculinized attributes associated wit…
Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
In Dude, You're a Fag, C. J. Pascoe draws on ethnographic research conducted at a high school in California to offer a nuanced and groundbreaking examination of how American boys construct masculinity. Pascoe finds that masculinity is defined primarily through dominance and control, and that any deviation from this norm is labeled "fag." This epithet is not necessarily about homophobia; rather, it is used to police the boundaries of masculinity, …
Hybrid Masculinities: New Directions in the Sociology of Men and Masculinities
Hybrid masculinity refers to men's selective incorporation of performances and identity elements associated with marginalized and subordinated masculinities and femininities. We use recent theorization of hybrid masculinities to critically review theory and research that seeks to make sense of contemporary transformations in masculinity. We suggest that research broadly supports three distinct consequences associated with recent changes in perfor…
Good Guys Don't Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape
Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-ana Body Online
This article details the making of community and bodies in online environments, specifically the online pro-anorexia community. Building community among members of these groups is particularly fraught because tensions over claims to authenticity permeate these groups. Because these are embodied practices and online spaces are presumably disembodied, participants constantly grapple with authenticity, largely through the threat of the 'wannarexic'.…
Multiple Masculinities: Teenage Boys Talk about Jocks and Gender
Through interviews with 20 teenage boys at two high schools, the author examines the ways in which boys from different school subcultures engage with the most dominantly masculine of the school's peer groups-the Jocks. The author investigates how boys from less "masculine" groups maintain a sense of self as masculine. The boys do this by reworking meanings of group membership and gendered identity to include masculinized attributes associated wit…
Resource and Risk: Youth Sexuality and New Media Use
No Homo: Gendered Dimensions of Homophobic Epithets Online
Who is a Real Man? The Gender of Trumpism
The rise of Trumpism exemplifies a contest over masculinity, over who qualifies as a “real man.” This contest being waged not only by some obvious actors – President Trump, his supporters and representatives; it is a contest also waged by those who oppose the current administration and are perhaps actively working against the perpetuation of gender inequality. The themes deployed by Trumpists and anti-Trumpists alike address a core component of m…
It’s Getting Difficult to Be a Straight White Man”: Bundled Masculinity Grievances on Reddit
Studying Young People's New Media Use: Methodological Shifts and Educational Innovations
A lack of good information about what youth are doing with new media stimulates fears and hopes about the relationship between young people and digital technologies. This article focuses on new modes of inquiry into youth new media use, highlighting the challenges, complexities, and opportunities inherent in studying young people's digital cultures. It outlines methodological issues unique to studies of youth and new media, such as accessing popu…
In the Name of Love: White Organizations and Racialized Emotions
This article bridges the gap between insights from a theory of racialized organizations and insights from a theory of racialized emotions by asking what role these emotions play in organizations. Drawing on a combined four years of ethnographic data from two predominantly White organizations in the Pacific Northwest - a conservative evangelical mega-church and a progressive public high school - we argue that these two organizations address racial…
A sociology of bullying: Placing youth aggression in social context
In this paper we review the sociological literature on peer aggression among adolescents and demonstrate how it can form the basis of a new subfield in sociology on the subject of bullying. Although sociologists have mostly avoided the term bullying in classic works on adolescent aggression, these studies suggest that institutional social control, status hierarchies and social inequalities provide important social context for youth aggression. Wh…
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
Notes on a Sociology of Bullying: Young Men's Homophobia as Gender Socialization
Popular and academic discourses frame bullying as something that one, often high-status, homophobic kid directs at another, often lower status, GLB young person, frequently with devastating results. This article unpacks current popular and academic discourses of bullying. In doing so it highlights the important role these aggressive interactions play in boys' gender socialization. Using a case study of homophobic bullying among teenage boys in ad…
The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens after High School
Multiple Masculinities: Teenage Boys Talk about Jocks and Gender
Through interviews with 20 teenage boys at two high schools, the author examines the ways in which boys from different school subcultures engage with the most dominantly masculine of the school's peer groups-the Jocks. The author investigates how boys from less "masculine" groups maintain a sense of self as masculine. The boys do this by reworking meanings of group membership and gendered identity to include masculinized attributes associated wit…
‘Dude, You’re a Fag’: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse
This article argues that American adolescent boys become masculine through the continual repudiation of a ‘fag’ identity. Using insights from sociologists of interaction and post-structural theorists of sexuality this article demonstrates that the fag insult has multiple meanings which are primarily gendered but also sexualized and raced. This article builds on prior analyses of adolescent homophobia by (1) pointing to the limits of an argument t…
The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens after High School
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today’s youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-ex…
Wannabes, Goths, and Christians: The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status
Resource and Risk: Youth Sexuality and New Media Use
Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-ana Body Online
This article details the making of community and bodies in online environments, specifically the online pro-anorexia community. Building community among members of these groups is particularly fraught because tensions over claims to authenticity permeate these groups. Because these are embodied practices and online spaces are presumably disembodied, participants constantly grapple with authenticity, largely through the threat of the 'wannarexic'.…
Studying Young People's New Media Use: Methodological Shifts and Educational Innovations
A lack of good information about what youth are doing with new media stimulates fears and hopes about the relationship between young people and digital technologies. This article focuses on new modes of inquiry into youth new media use, highlighting the challenges, complexities, and opportunities inherent in studying young people's digital cultures. It outlines methodological issues unique to studies of youth and new media, such as accessing popu…
Notes on a Sociology of Bullying: Young Men's Homophobia as Gender Socialization
Popular and academic discourses frame bullying as something that one, often high-status, homophobic kid directs at another, often lower status, GLB young person, frequently with devastating results. This article unpacks current popular and academic discourses of bullying. In doing so it highlights the important role these aggressive interactions play in boys' gender socialization. Using a case study of homophobic bullying among teenage boys in ad…
Hybrid Masculinities: New Directions in the Sociology of Men and Masculinities
Hybrid masculinity refers to men's selective incorporation of performances and identity elements associated with marginalized and subordinated masculinities and femininities. We use recent theorization of hybrid masculinities to critically review theory and research that seeks to make sense of contemporary transformations in masculinity. We suggest that research broadly supports three distinct consequences associated with recent changes in perfor…
The Boy Problem: Educating Boys in Urban America, 1870-1970
Good Guys Don't Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape
Who is a Real Man? The Gender of Trumpism
The rise of Trumpism exemplifies a contest over masculinity, over who qualifies as a “real man.” This contest being waged not only by some obvious actors – President Trump, his supporters and representatives; it is a contest also waged by those who oppose the current administration and are perhaps actively working against the perpetuation of gender inequality. The themes deployed by Trumpists and anti-Trumpists alike address a core component of m…
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
On the Elasticity of Gender Hegemony: Why Hybrid Masculinities Fail to Undermine Gender and Sexual Inequality
No Homo: Gendered Dimensions of Homophobic Epithets Online
What to Do with Actual People? Thinking Through a Queer Social Science Method
Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, With a New Preface
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demon…
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
In Dude, You're a Fag, C. J. Pascoe draws on ethnographic research conducted at a high school in California to offer a nuanced and groundbreaking examination of how American boys construct masculinity. Pascoe finds that masculinity is defined primarily through dominance and control, and that any deviation from this norm is labeled "fag." This epithet is not necessarily about homophobia; rather, it is used to police the boundaries of masculinity, …
It’s Getting Difficult to Be a Straight White Man”: Bundled Masculinity Grievances on Reddit
A sociology of bullying: Placing youth aggression in social context
In this paper we review the sociological literature on peer aggression among adolescents and demonstrate how it can form the basis of a new subfield in sociology on the subject of bullying. Although sociologists have mostly avoided the term bullying in classic works on adolescent aggression, these studies suggest that institutional social control, status hierarchies and social inequalities provide important social context for youth aggression. Wh…
In the Name of Love: White Organizations and Racialized Emotions
This article bridges the gap between insights from a theory of racialized organizations and insights from a theory of racialized emotions by asking what role these emotions play in organizations. Drawing on a combined four years of ethnographic data from two predominantly White organizations in the Pacific Northwest - a conservative evangelical mega-church and a progressive public high school - we argue that these two organizations address racial…
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Masculinity (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works)