by David Yamane | Mar 10, 2020 | Gun Culture
I am very pleased to announce that Trent Steidley (U. of Denver) and I are editing a special issue of Sociological Perspectives on guns. Please see the full call for papers for more information. Proposals are due April 30th and final manuscripts September 1st. ...
by David Yamane | Mar 4, 2020 | Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
In Fall 2023, I am teaching my “Sociology of Guns” seminar at Wake Forest University for the ninth consecutive academic year, dating back to the fall of 2015. A PDF of the course syllabus for Version 9.0 is available HERE. The Conversation, a website dedicated to...
by David Yamane | Mar 1, 2020 | academic bias, Jonathan Haidt, My Experience
I reviewed articles for two scholarly journals yesterday, one of which was quite good and one of which had a very good empirical analysis embedded in a badly biased introduction and conclusion. It becomes more and more challenging to maintain my equanimity as I review...
by David Yamane | Feb 29, 2020 | Gun Culture, Liberal Gun Club
The Democratic presidential primaries have the media off in search of a political unicorn: The Liberal Gun Owner. Two news stories in the past couple of days report on successful hunts. The NPR affiliate in Seattle reported on “Four Seattle liberals on why they...
by David Yamane | Feb 28, 2020 | Advertising, Gun Culture, militarization
Criticisms of the “militarization” of American gun culture are commonplace. No group has done more to attack this phenomenon than the Violence Policy Center (VPC) and their 2011 report on “The Militarization of the U.S. Civilian Firearms...
