by David Yamane | Sep 14, 2023 | gender, Grandmothers Against Gun Violence, Sandy Hook massacre, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
This is the first of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar. The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to have their thoughts...
by David Yamane | Nov 9, 2022 | Data, gender, Gun Culture 2.0, gun ownership, Light Over Heat, psychology of guns, race, social class, The Standard Model
This video concludes my ongoing series systematizing the dominant academic approach to understanding Gun Culture 2.0, what I call “The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership.” Here I engage the 5th of the model’s 5 points: That...
by David Yamane | Jul 3, 2022 | gender, Gun Culture, National Rifle Association, The ANNALS, The Seventies, The Well Armed Woman, women
TL:DR Because I had then lost this document, and so I do not lose it again, I am posting a PDF of The Woman’s Gun Pamphlet: A Primer on Handguns. The pamphlet is notable for being published in 1975 by an anonymous “group of women who have spent our lives...
by David Yamane | Feb 18, 2022 | Data, gender, Guns, Personal Protection, race, scholarship, social class
Last year I was invited to contribute to a special issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science by the editors Cassandra Crifasi, Jennifer Dineen, and Kerri Raissian. The theme of this issue is “Gun Violence in American: What Works and...
by David Yamane | Jan 19, 2022 | Data, diversity, gender, gun ownership, Guns, guns are normal, Light Over Heat, National Firearms Survey, race
In this third “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane” video I explore what two 2021 National Firearms Surveys tell us about the diverse and changing face of gun owners today. The first survey, Georgetown business professor William English’s 2021 National...
by David Yamane | Dec 19, 2021 | gender, police, race, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
As noted earlier, the final assignment of the semester in my Sociology of Guns seminar is for the students to write an essay reflecting on their personal experience with and understanding of guns in light of what they learned in the course. Here is the sixth of...
