by David Yamane | Jan 1, 2022 | Gun Culture, Guns, Light Over Heat
Happy New Year! I hope everyone has some good plans for 2022. Let me briefly tell you about one of mine. Although I posted nearly as many times on my two blogs (Gun Culture 2.0 and Gun Curious) in 2021 as I did in 2020 (129 posts vs. 135 posts), combined visitors to...
by David Yamane | Dec 31, 2021 | Data, Defensive Gun Use, gun ownership, Guns, National Firearms Survey, William English
A summary of results from the 2021 National Firearms Survey was posted to the SSRN site back in July. I confess to missing it the first time around because I thought it was the same National Firearms Survey that was fielded by scholars at Northeastern and Harvard...
by David Yamane | Dec 20, 2021 | Boston Review, Chad Kautzer, Gun Culture, Guns, race
Below you will find a comment written by one of the authors whose work I criticized in a recent post, philosopher Chad Kautzer. Because many people miss (or actively avoid reading) the comments, I offered to move his comments to a free-standing post as a reply to my...
by David Yamane | Nov 2, 2021 | Guns, scholarship, sociology
Although the printed journal is not due out until February 2022, by the magic of the internet, the articles appearing in the special issue of Sociological Perspectives that I co-edited are now available online (though mostly pay-walled, sorry). The Special Issue...
by David Yamane | Sep 14, 2021 | field trip, Guns, Shooting, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
Although the remnants of Hurricane Ida forced a last minute rescheduling, my Fall 2021 Sociology of Guns seminar students completed their mandatory field trip to the gun range on September 3rd. This is the 7th time I have taught the course and the 7th successful field...
by David Yamane | Jul 26, 2021 | field trip, Guns, Lucky Gunner, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
As I prepare to teach my Sociology of Guns course Version 7.0, I thought I would post as much of the material for the different modules I am teaching this fall as possible. Probably the most unique aspect of this course from the start has been the class trip to the...
