Liz Grauerholz
Biographic Data
| ID | 89979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz Grauerholz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz |
| FAMILY NAME | Grauerholz |
| SIGNATURE | GRAUERHOLZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6559-5381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 242 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Toxic Personal Care: Selling Gendered Marketing and Chemical Toxicity Through Personal Care Products
This mixed-methods study examines the marketing of, and toxic ingredients found in, common personal care products (PCPs) such as shampoos or deodorants that are sold in the United States. Through qualitative analyses of the messaging presented by PCP packaging and quantitative analyses of the prevalence of toxic ingredients by product and target consumer, we reveal what we term “toxic personal care”: the usage of products sold to consumers as min…
Teaching Human-Animal Studies Courses: Exploring Student Characteristics Across Three Universities
Human-animal studies ( HAS ) courses are becoming increasingly common in the college curriculum to help mitigate and address environmental and social problems. However, data on who takes these courses are lacking. This study examines differences between students who enroll in sociological HAS courses and those who do not. Survey data from three very distinct universities show that the main commonalities among students in HAS courses is bonding to…
Sociological Animal Studies Courses Are More Effective Than Human-Centered Sociology Courses in Enhancing Empathy
Sociology plays a key role in empathy development, which is central to addressing complex social problems. However, little is known about what types of courses work best to enhance empathy. In parallel, sociological animal studies (SAS) has evolved as a relatively new subfield focused on assessing human and animal relationships. SAS research suggests that our interactions with animals enhance empathy development. Combining these literatures, we a…
Beyond the Pink Tax: Gender-Based Pricing and Differentiation of Personal Care Products
Teaching about Animals: Incorporating Nonhuman Animals into Sociology Classrooms
The topic of human–animal studies (HAS) remains largely ignored within the sociology classroom. While a few sociologists have encouraged teaching about animals, none has assessed whether incorporating nonhuman animals into the curriculum is effective. In this study, three instructors at two universities incorporated animal-related materials in their sociology courses in a variety of ways. Data analyzed from course exam responses and student paper…
Interspecies Parenting: How Pet Parents Construct Their Roles
This qualitative study explores a widespread contemporary family form, the interspecies family, to understand how people who count their cats and dogs as family members describe this process of becoming and maintaining family. We focus on one aspect of interspecies families—pet parenting. We find that even though individuals say their pets are family, not all consider themselves to be parents or engaged in pet parenting. Participants with human c…
Exploring Classroom Climate in Sociology Courses Using Syllabi
The classroom climate shapes students’ learning and instructors’ teaching experience in profound ways. This study analyzes classroom climate statements in syllabi from various sociology courses to understand the extent that sociology instructors highlight climate issues and how climate is conceptualized in their syllabi. Drawing from data from two different times periods (pre-2005 and post-2010), the current study examines the frequency of classr…
Gendered Representations and Portrayals in Technology Advertisements: Exploring Variations by Age, Race and Ethnicity
Introducing the Invisible Man: Black Male Professionals in Higher Education
The absence of Black male professionals in higher education pose a serious challenge to diversity and social justice in colleges and universities. Not only does this paucity reinforce the dominant racial system within these institutions and contribute to the marginalization and discrimination experienced by these men, the lack of Black men in professional positions has serious implications for the retention and graduation of students of color. Ye…
Teaching Inequalities: Using Public Transportation and Visual Sociology to Make It Real
In this article, we describe an adaptation of Nichols, Berry, and Kalogrides’s “Hop on the Bus” exercise. In addition to riding the bus, we incorporated a visual component similar to that developed by Whitley by having students conduct a sociological, photographic exercise after they disembarked. Qualitative and quantitative assessment data show that taken together, these exercises enhance students’ awareness and sociological understanding of soc…
Alternative Food Movements
Collaborative Consumption
Consumption Rituals in the Transition to Motherhood
Infant-feeding consumerism in the age of intensive mothering and risk society
The ideologies of intensive mothering and risk society place increasing burden on mothers to make critical choices regarding infant feeding that are understood as having irreversible consequences for their children's long-term health and emotional well-being. Although research has examined consequences of these ideologies on mothers’ decisions to breastfeed or formula-feed their infants, little has focused on consumer decisions regarding formulas…
Writing in the Sociology Curriculum: What Types and How Much Writing Do We Assign
We analyzed undergraduate sociology course syllabi to determine how prevalent writing is, the types of writing used, and whether assignment of writing and specific types of writing vary by type of course goals, gender of instructor, institutional type, or type of course. Almost all courses represented in these syllabi incorporate writing, with traditional (transactional) writing being the most common. Writing is more likely in courses that seek t…
Attraction in the Field: What We Need to Acknowledge and Implications for Research and Teaching
Physical or sexual attraction plays an important role in shaping a wide range of relationships and in myriad ways. Our primary interest here is in how attraction shapes the qualitative research experience. Close examination of popular sociological ethnographies found that attractiveness is used as a descriptor, and almost always in a distancing fashion, but never considered in a reflexive manner. We explore implications of this silence surroundin…
Teaching about Consumption: The “Not Buying It” Project
This study presents an experiential exercise designed to heighten students’ awareness of overconsumption in the United States and allow them to see how their own consumption habits are linked to larger social factors. Students engaged in the “Not Buying It” project—which involved refraining from purchasing all but essentials for a set number of days—as part of a broader lesson on consumerism. Qualitative and quantitative data, gathered from stude…
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Teaching Sociology: 1973–2009
This article updates and extends research by Baker and Chin, who tracked changes in studies published in Teaching Sociology from 1973 to 1983 (Baker) and 1984 to 1999 (Chin). The current study traces manuscripts published in Teaching Sociology from 2000 to 2009. We examine both who publishes in the journal and what gets published. In particular, we explore change in the systematic assessment of teaching methods and techniques since Baker’s and Ch…
The Cost of Doing Femininity: Gendered Disparities in Pricing of Personal Care Products and Services
Gender in Twentieth-Century Children's Books: Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters
Gender representations reproduce and legitimate gender systems. To examine this aspect of the gendered social order, we analyze the representation of males and females in the titles and central characters of 5,618 children's books published throughout the twentieth century in the United States. Compared to females, males are represented nearly twice as often in titles and 1.6 times as often as central characters. By no measure in any book series …
Years of C. Wright Mills and The Sociological Imagination
How to do the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
At the 2007 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, we presented a workshop entitled “How to do the Scholarship of Teaching.” The workshop had three main goals: to introduce participants to the literature on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and to various SoTL outlets, to guide participants in the process of doing their own SoTL research, and to enhance participants' chances of getting their SoTL work published, e…
Engaging Our Students
This volume is a collection of essays previ ously published in the sociological magazine, Contexts, that have been repackaged as a reader for an undergraduate audience. From those published in during its first five years (2002-2006), past edi tors Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper selected those they believe provide insight into a wide range of sociological issues. The result is a highly readable and engaging reader that is likely to prove popular wi…
Cute Enough to Eat: The Transformation of Animals into Meat for Human Consumption in Commercialized Images
In order for a culture that generally likes, even loves, animals to eat them, and especially not to make the link between the two, it is necessary to construct the consumption of meat-eating in such a way that the connection is blurred or erased. In this paper, I suggest that one way this is done is by transforming animals, which are loved, into meats, which are eaten, so that the concepts of “animals” and “meats” seem distinct and unrelated. Usi…
Feminist Research in the Public Domain: Risks and Recommendations
This article offers a feminist perspective on public sociology that suggests that the potential risks of going public with feminist sociological research are more pervasive and serious than proponents of public sociologies have previously acknowledged. At the same time, the promise of public sociologies for furthering feminist goals has been largely untapped. Here, the authors recount their own experience with widely publicized research that, whi…
Articulation of Goals and Means in Sociology Courses: What We Can Learn from Syllabi
This paper examines the articulation of goals and means of sociological instruction in course syllabi. Three questions guide this inquiry. First, do sociology instructors articulate common learning goals? Second, what pedagogical means do instructors commonly employ to meet these goals? Third, to what extent have sociology instructors incorporated the recommendations presented in Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major (Eberts et al. 1990) and i…
Exploring Critical Sociological Thinking
Much has been written about enhancing students' critical thinking abilities, but very little empirical research on this important learning outcome exists within the sociological literature. Indeed, there is little consensus among sociologists (and non-sociologists) about what critical thinking is. In this paper we review ways in which sociologists have conceptualized and measured critical thinking and introduce a new concept--critical sociologica…
Creating and Teaching Writing-Intensive Courses
Writing is one of the most important and useful pedagogical tools available to instructors to help students achieve a variety of goals central to sociological instruction, including critical thinking and the development of students' sociological imaginations. This article provides specific guidelines for creating writing-intensive courses and writing assignments that are integral to achieving pedagogical goals. It also includes some strategies fo…
Gender in Twentieth-Century Children's Books: Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters
Gender representations reproduce and legitimate gender systems. To examine this aspect of the gendered social order, we analyze the representation of males and females in the titles and central characters of 5,618 children's books published throughout the twentieth century in the United States. Compared to females, males are represented nearly twice as often in titles and 1.6 times as often as central characters. By no measure in any book series …
Infant-feeding consumerism in the age of intensive mothering and risk society
The ideologies of intensive mothering and risk society place increasing burden on mothers to make critical choices regarding infant feeding that are understood as having irreversible consequences for their children's long-term health and emotional well-being. Although research has examined consequences of these ideologies on mothers’ decisions to breastfeed or formula-feed their infants, little has focused on consumer decisions regarding formulas…
The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children's Fairy Tales
This study advances understanding of how a normative feminine beauty ideal is maintained through cultural products such as fairy tales. Using Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, the authors explore the extent and ways in which 'feminine beauty' is highlighted. Next, they compare those tales that have survived (e.g., Cinderella , Snow White , Sleeping Beauty ) with those that have not to determine whether tales that have been popularized place more emph…
Interspecies Parenting: How Pet Parents Construct Their Roles
This qualitative study explores a widespread contemporary family form, the interspecies family, to understand how people who count their cats and dogs as family members describe this process of becoming and maintaining family. We focus on one aspect of interspecies families—pet parenting. We find that even though individuals say their pets are family, not all consider themselves to be parents or engaged in pet parenting. Participants with human c…
Attraction in the Field: What We Need to Acknowledge and Implications for Research and Teaching
Physical or sexual attraction plays an important role in shaping a wide range of relationships and in myriad ways. Our primary interest here is in how attraction shapes the qualitative research experience. Close examination of popular sociological ethnographies found that attractiveness is used as a descriptor, and almost always in a distancing fashion, but never considered in a reflexive manner. We explore implications of this silence surroundin…
Teaching Inequalities: Using Public Transportation and Visual Sociology to Make It Real
In this article, we describe an adaptation of Nichols, Berry, and Kalogrides’s “Hop on the Bus” exercise. In addition to riding the bus, we incorporated a visual component similar to that developed by Whitley by having students conduct a sociological, photographic exercise after they disembarked. Qualitative and quantitative assessment data show that taken together, these exercises enhance students’ awareness and sociological understanding of soc…
Writing in the Sociology Curriculum: What Types and How Much Writing Do We Assign
We analyzed undergraduate sociology course syllabi to determine how prevalent writing is, the types of writing used, and whether assignment of writing and specific types of writing vary by type of course goals, gender of instructor, institutional type, or type of course. Almost all courses represented in these syllabi incorporate writing, with traditional (transactional) writing being the most common. Writing is more likely in courses that seek t…
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Teaching Sociology: 1973–2009
This article updates and extends research by Baker and Chin, who tracked changes in studies published in Teaching Sociology from 1973 to 1983 (Baker) and 1984 to 1999 (Chin). The current study traces manuscripts published in Teaching Sociology from 2000 to 2009. We examine both who publishes in the journal and what gets published. In particular, we explore change in the systematic assessment of teaching methods and techniques since Baker’s and Ch…
How to do the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
At the 2007 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, we presented a workshop entitled “How to do the Scholarship of Teaching.” The workshop had three main goals: to introduce participants to the literature on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and to various SoTL outlets, to guide participants in the process of doing their own SoTL research, and to enhance participants' chances of getting their SoTL work published, e…
Cute Enough to Eat: The Transformation of Animals into Meat for Human Consumption in Commercialized Images
In order for a culture that generally likes, even loves, animals to eat them, and especially not to make the link between the two, it is necessary to construct the consumption of meat-eating in such a way that the connection is blurred or erased. In this paper, I suggest that one way this is done is by transforming animals, which are loved, into meats, which are eaten, so that the concepts of “animals” and “meats” seem distinct and unrelated. Usi…
Years of C. Wright Mills and The Sociological Imagination
Feminist Research in the Public Domain: Risks and Recommendations
This article offers a feminist perspective on public sociology that suggests that the potential risks of going public with feminist sociological research are more pervasive and serious than proponents of public sociologies have previously acknowledged. At the same time, the promise of public sociologies for furthering feminist goals has been largely untapped. Here, the authors recount their own experience with widely publicized research that, whi…
Consumption Rituals in the Transition to Motherhood
There's Safety in Numbers: Creating a Campus Advisers' Network to Help Complainants of Sexual Harassment and Complaint Receivers
Virtually all universities and colleges have policies and procedures for dealing with sexual harassment, but most victims do not report their experiences to officials. At the heart of many victims' reasons for not reporting is concern about their safety. There are also safety concerns for persons receiving complaints. This article documents the efforts at one university to create a safer environment for victims to report their experiences. We dis…
Introducing the Invisible Man: Black Male Professionals in Higher Education
The absence of Black male professionals in higher education pose a serious challenge to diversity and social justice in colleges and universities. Not only does this paucity reinforce the dominant racial system within these institutions and contribute to the marginalization and discrimination experienced by these men, the lack of Black men in professional positions has serious implications for the retention and graduation of students of color. Ye…
Teaching about Animals: Incorporating Nonhuman Animals into Sociology Classrooms
The topic of human–animal studies (HAS) remains largely ignored within the sociology classroom. While a few sociologists have encouraged teaching about animals, none has assessed whether incorporating nonhuman animals into the curriculum is effective. In this study, three instructors at two universities incorporated animal-related materials in their sociology courses in a variety of ways. Data analyzed from course exam responses and student paper…
Gendered Representations and Portrayals in Technology Advertisements: Exploring Variations by Age, Race and Ethnicity
Teaching about Consumption: The “Not Buying It” Project
This study presents an experiential exercise designed to heighten students’ awareness of overconsumption in the United States and allow them to see how their own consumption habits are linked to larger social factors. Students engaged in the “Not Buying It” project—which involved refraining from purchasing all but essentials for a set number of days—as part of a broader lesson on consumerism. Qualitative and quantitative data, gathered from stude…
The Cost of Doing Femininity: Gendered Disparities in Pricing of Personal Care Products and Services
Bringing Gender to Life in the Classroom: Recommended Videos That Teach about Gender
Gender has become a major topic area within over the past two decades. Virtually all textbooks and courses devote attention to it, and many departments regularly teach at least one sociology of course. But it is also one of the more difficult topics to teach to undergraduates. Despite the fact that gender is a major organizing feature of daily life, many students fail to recognize its importance or prevalence. Many of the issues surrounding gende…
Beyond the Pink Tax: Gender-Based Pricing and Differentiation of Personal Care Products
Exploring Classroom Climate in Sociology Courses Using Syllabi
The classroom climate shapes students’ learning and instructors’ teaching experience in profound ways. This study analyzes classroom climate statements in syllabi from various sociology courses to understand the extent that sociology instructors highlight climate issues and how climate is conceptualized in their syllabi. Drawing from data from two different times periods (pre-2005 and post-2010), the current study examines the frequency of classr…
There's Safety in Numbers: Creating a Campus Advisers' Network to Help Complainants of Sexual Harassment and Complaint Receivers
Virtually all universities and colleges have policies and procedures for dealing with sexual harassment, but most victims do not report their experiences to officials. At the heart of many victims' reasons for not reporting is concern about their safety. There are also safety concerns for persons receiving complaints. This article documents the efforts at one university to create a safer environment for victims to report their experiences. We dis…
Creating and Teaching Writing-Intensive Courses
Writing is one of the most important and useful pedagogical tools available to instructors to help students achieve a variety of goals central to sociological instruction, including critical thinking and the development of students' sociological imaginations. This article provides specific guidelines for creating writing-intensive courses and writing assignments that are integral to achieving pedagogical goals. It also includes some strategies fo…
Bringing Gender to Life in the Classroom: Recommended Videos That Teach about Gender
Gender has become a major topic area within over the past two decades. Virtually all textbooks and courses devote attention to it, and many departments regularly teach at least one sociology of course. But it is also one of the more difficult topics to teach to undergraduates. Despite the fact that gender is a major organizing feature of daily life, many students fail to recognize its importance or prevalence. Many of the issues surrounding gende…
To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change
Exploring Critical Sociological Thinking
Much has been written about enhancing students' critical thinking abilities, but very little empirical research on this important learning outcome exists within the sociological literature. Indeed, there is little consensus among sociologists (and non-sociologists) about what critical thinking is. In this paper we review ways in which sociologists have conceptualized and measured critical thinking and introduce a new concept--critical sociologica…
The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children's Fairy Tales
This study advances understanding of how a normative feminine beauty ideal is maintained through cultural products such as fairy tales. Using Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, the authors explore the extent and ways in which 'feminine beauty' is highlighted. Next, they compare those tales that have survived (e.g., Cinderella , Snow White , Sleeping Beauty ) with those that have not to determine whether tales that have been popularized place more emph…
Articulation of Goals and Means in Sociology Courses: What We Can Learn from Syllabi
This paper examines the articulation of goals and means of sociological instruction in course syllabi. Three questions guide this inquiry. First, do sociology instructors articulate common learning goals? Second, what pedagogical means do instructors commonly employ to meet these goals? Third, to what extent have sociology instructors incorporated the recommendations presented in Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major (Eberts et al. 1990) and i…
Cute Enough to Eat: The Transformation of Animals into Meat for Human Consumption in Commercialized Images
In order for a culture that generally likes, even loves, animals to eat them, and especially not to make the link between the two, it is necessary to construct the consumption of meat-eating in such a way that the connection is blurred or erased. In this paper, I suggest that one way this is done is by transforming animals, which are loved, into meats, which are eaten, so that the concepts of “animals” and “meats” seem distinct and unrelated. Usi…
Feminist Research in the Public Domain: Risks and Recommendations
This article offers a feminist perspective on public sociology that suggests that the potential risks of going public with feminist sociological research are more pervasive and serious than proponents of public sociologies have previously acknowledged. At the same time, the promise of public sociologies for furthering feminist goals has been largely untapped. Here, the authors recount their own experience with widely publicized research that, whi…
How to do the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
At the 2007 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, we presented a workshop entitled “How to do the Scholarship of Teaching.” The workshop had three main goals: to introduce participants to the literature on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and to various SoTL outlets, to guide participants in the process of doing their own SoTL research, and to enhance participants' chances of getting their SoTL work published, e…
Engaging Our Students
This volume is a collection of essays previ ously published in the sociological magazine, Contexts, that have been repackaged as a reader for an undergraduate audience. From those published in during its first five years (2002-2006), past edi tors Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper selected those they believe provide insight into a wide range of sociological issues. The result is a highly readable and engaging reader that is likely to prove popular wi…
Years of C. Wright Mills and The Sociological Imagination
The Cost of Doing Femininity: Gendered Disparities in Pricing of Personal Care Products and Services
Gender in Twentieth-Century Children's Books: Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters
Gender representations reproduce and legitimate gender systems. To examine this aspect of the gendered social order, we analyze the representation of males and females in the titles and central characters of 5,618 children's books published throughout the twentieth century in the United States. Compared to females, males are represented nearly twice as often in titles and 1.6 times as often as central characters. By no measure in any book series …
Teaching about Consumption: The “Not Buying It” Project
This study presents an experiential exercise designed to heighten students’ awareness of overconsumption in the United States and allow them to see how their own consumption habits are linked to larger social factors. Students engaged in the “Not Buying It” project—which involved refraining from purchasing all but essentials for a set number of days—as part of a broader lesson on consumerism. Qualitative and quantitative data, gathered from stude…
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Teaching Sociology: 1973–2009
This article updates and extends research by Baker and Chin, who tracked changes in studies published in Teaching Sociology from 1973 to 1983 (Baker) and 1984 to 1999 (Chin). The current study traces manuscripts published in Teaching Sociology from 2000 to 2009. We examine both who publishes in the journal and what gets published. In particular, we explore change in the systematic assessment of teaching methods and techniques since Baker’s and Ch…
Infant-feeding consumerism in the age of intensive mothering and risk society
The ideologies of intensive mothering and risk society place increasing burden on mothers to make critical choices regarding infant feeding that are understood as having irreversible consequences for their children's long-term health and emotional well-being. Although research has examined consequences of these ideologies on mothers’ decisions to breastfeed or formula-feed their infants, little has focused on consumer decisions regarding formulas…
Writing in the Sociology Curriculum: What Types and How Much Writing Do We Assign
We analyzed undergraduate sociology course syllabi to determine how prevalent writing is, the types of writing used, and whether assignment of writing and specific types of writing vary by type of course goals, gender of instructor, institutional type, or type of course. Almost all courses represented in these syllabi incorporate writing, with traditional (transactional) writing being the most common. Writing is more likely in courses that seek t…
Attraction in the Field: What We Need to Acknowledge and Implications for Research and Teaching
Physical or sexual attraction plays an important role in shaping a wide range of relationships and in myriad ways. Our primary interest here is in how attraction shapes the qualitative research experience. Close examination of popular sociological ethnographies found that attractiveness is used as a descriptor, and almost always in a distancing fashion, but never considered in a reflexive manner. We explore implications of this silence surroundin…
Consumption Rituals in the Transition to Motherhood
Alternative Food Movements
Collaborative Consumption
Teaching Inequalities: Using Public Transportation and Visual Sociology to Make It Real
In this article, we describe an adaptation of Nichols, Berry, and Kalogrides’s “Hop on the Bus” exercise. In addition to riding the bus, we incorporated a visual component similar to that developed by Whitley by having students conduct a sociological, photographic exercise after they disembarked. Qualitative and quantitative assessment data show that taken together, these exercises enhance students’ awareness and sociological understanding of soc…
Gendered Representations and Portrayals in Technology Advertisements: Exploring Variations by Age, Race and Ethnicity
Introducing the Invisible Man: Black Male Professionals in Higher Education
The absence of Black male professionals in higher education pose a serious challenge to diversity and social justice in colleges and universities. Not only does this paucity reinforce the dominant racial system within these institutions and contribute to the marginalization and discrimination experienced by these men, the lack of Black men in professional positions has serious implications for the retention and graduation of students of color. Ye…
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Social science (15 works) · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences (13 works) · Pedagogy (13 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Higher education (8 works)