Sandi Kawecka Nenga
Biographic Data
| ID | 94461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandi Kawecka Nenga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandi Kawecka |
| FAMILY NAME | Nenga |
| SIGNATURE | NENGA S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Working in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work
More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds. Warnock argues that it is difficult to reconcile the goals of facilitating upward mobility for students from similar backgrounds w…
Not the community, but a community: Transforming youth into citizens through volunteer work
Public discourse suggests that volunteer work will transform youth into productive citizens by connecting youth to their communities. However, the meaning and practice of ‘community’ is rarely defined or investigated. Using interview and observation data from a study of 47 volunteers aged 15–23, I argue that there are three different types of community youth commonly join via volunteer work. One kind of community was composed of a homogenous grou…
Volunteering to Give up Privilege? How Affluent Youth Volunteers Respond to Class Privilege
Although affluent youth can meet people from different social classes and learn about poverty while volunteering, some youth leave volunteer experiences without challenging their class privilege. Using in-depth interviews with forty affluent youth volunteers, the author identifies four ways that youth exercised agency in response to class privilege: evading class, employing equalizing discourses, blaming cultural capital, and challenging class pr…
Stealing Peanuts and Coercing Energy Drinks: The Underground Economy of a Middle School Summer Camp
Economic activities are one important but understudied mechanism which kids use to recreate inequality within their peer cultures. Drawing on ethnographic data from a middle school summer camp, we used Goffman’s typology of economic arrangements to analyze sequences of economic interactions within an underground economy. The middle school students drew on coercion, trading and sharing in order to address their own interests and concerns. When neg…
From Snow White to Digimon: Using popular media to confront Confucian values in Taiwanese peer cultures
Parents, educators and social commentators have repeatedly claimed that passive media consumption can harm children. Building on recent attempts to understand how children actively interpret media, the authors use an interpretive model of socialization to analyze fieldnote excerpts from a Taiwanese kindergarten and first grade. Contrary to popular opinion, the findings demonstrate that young children did not simply internalize and reproduce the m…
Social Class And Structures Of Feeling In Women's Childhood Memories Of Clothing, Food, And Leisure
Sociological and autobiographical accounts of working-class life suggest that emotions are one important component of social class identification. In this article, the author invokes Raymond Williams' concept, "structures of feeling," to explain how something as private and individual as emotions can be linked to one collective identity, social class. She examines the childhood memories of twenty-seven women from working-class and middle-class ba…
Volunteering to Give up Privilege? How Affluent Youth Volunteers Respond to Class Privilege
Although affluent youth can meet people from different social classes and learn about poverty while volunteering, some youth leave volunteer experiences without challenging their class privilege. Using in-depth interviews with forty affluent youth volunteers, the author identifies four ways that youth exercised agency in response to class privilege: evading class, employing equalizing discourses, blaming cultural capital, and challenging class pr…
From Snow White to Digimon: Using popular media to confront Confucian values in Taiwanese peer cultures
Parents, educators and social commentators have repeatedly claimed that passive media consumption can harm children. Building on recent attempts to understand how children actively interpret media, the authors use an interpretive model of socialization to analyze fieldnote excerpts from a Taiwanese kindergarten and first grade. Contrary to popular opinion, the findings demonstrate that young children did not simply internalize and reproduce the m…
Social Class And Structures Of Feeling In Women's Childhood Memories Of Clothing, Food, And Leisure
Sociological and autobiographical accounts of working-class life suggest that emotions are one important component of social class identification. In this article, the author invokes Raymond Williams' concept, "structures of feeling," to explain how something as private and individual as emotions can be linked to one collective identity, social class. She examines the childhood memories of twenty-seven women from working-class and middle-class ba…
Not the community, but a community: Transforming youth into citizens through volunteer work
Public discourse suggests that volunteer work will transform youth into productive citizens by connecting youth to their communities. However, the meaning and practice of ‘community’ is rarely defined or investigated. Using interview and observation data from a study of 47 volunteers aged 15–23, I argue that there are three different types of community youth commonly join via volunteer work. One kind of community was composed of a homogenous grou…
Social Class And Structures Of Feeling In Women's Childhood Memories Of Clothing, Food, And Leisure
Sociological and autobiographical accounts of working-class life suggest that emotions are one important component of social class identification. In this article, the author invokes Raymond Williams' concept, "structures of feeling," to explain how something as private and individual as emotions can be linked to one collective identity, social class. She examines the childhood memories of twenty-seven women from working-class and middle-class ba…
From Snow White to Digimon: Using popular media to confront Confucian values in Taiwanese peer cultures
Parents, educators and social commentators have repeatedly claimed that passive media consumption can harm children. Building on recent attempts to understand how children actively interpret media, the authors use an interpretive model of socialization to analyze fieldnote excerpts from a Taiwanese kindergarten and first grade. Contrary to popular opinion, the findings demonstrate that young children did not simply internalize and reproduce the m…
Stealing Peanuts and Coercing Energy Drinks: The Underground Economy of a Middle School Summer Camp
Economic activities are one important but understudied mechanism which kids use to recreate inequality within their peer cultures. Drawing on ethnographic data from a middle school summer camp, we used Goffman’s typology of economic arrangements to analyze sequences of economic interactions within an underground economy. The middle school students drew on coercion, trading and sharing in order to address their own interests and concerns. When neg…
Volunteering to Give up Privilege? How Affluent Youth Volunteers Respond to Class Privilege
Although affluent youth can meet people from different social classes and learn about poverty while volunteering, some youth leave volunteer experiences without challenging their class privilege. Using in-depth interviews with forty affluent youth volunteers, the author identifies four ways that youth exercised agency in response to class privilege: evading class, employing equalizing discourses, blaming cultural capital, and challenging class pr…
Not the community, but a community: Transforming youth into citizens through volunteer work
Public discourse suggests that volunteer work will transform youth into productive citizens by connecting youth to their communities. However, the meaning and practice of ‘community’ is rarely defined or investigated. Using interview and observation data from a study of 47 volunteers aged 15–23, I argue that there are three different types of community youth commonly join via volunteer work. One kind of community was composed of a homogenous grou…
Working in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work
More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds. Warnock argues that it is difficult to reconcile the goals of facilitating upward mobility for students from similar backgrounds w…
Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Class (philosophy (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)