by David Yamane | Aug 2, 2021 | gender, gun ownership, hegemonic masculinity, LGBT, sexuality, Sociology of Guns Seminar, women
Module 6 is not covered in these posts because it is a work week for students as I will be presenting on Gun Culture 2.0 at the Outdoor Writers Association of America annual conference in Vermont that week. Recognizing that the four parts of the Holy Quaternity of...
by David Yamane | Aug 1, 2021 | African Americans, gun ownership, race, Sociology of Guns Seminar
Modules 5, 6, and 7 of Sociology of Guns focus on three of the four parts of the Holy Quaternity of sociology: race, gender, and sexuality (we touch some on social class, too). There is no shortage of writing about how gun owners are racist, but my interest in this...
by David Yamane | Aug 1, 2021 | Concealed Carry Revolution, John Johnston, Sociology of Guns Seminar
The liberalization of concealed carry laws over the past several decades represents a dramatic expansion of the right to bear arms in the United States. It is an integral aspect of contemporary defensive gun culture and facilitates the ongoing development of Gun...
by David Yamane | Jul 31, 2021 | COVID19, diversity, gun ownership, gun sales, Sociology of Guns Seminar
This module takes up the demographics of gun ownship, the Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020+, and the changing face of American gun owners. We know from many surveys over a long period of time that the statistically average legal gun owner is a middle-aged, politically...
by David Yamane | Jul 29, 2021 | African Americans, Gun Culture, gun ownership, race, Wake Forest University
I was recently querying Academic Twitter about peer-reviewed social scientific publications on non-deviant African American gun owners to assign in the module on race in my Sociology of Guns seminar (more on that module forthcoming). I was disheartened but not...
