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 shared publicly. By Eliza Cook Growing up, I never thoughtContinue reading “Guns are “Exhilarating and Frightening” (Fall 2023 Student Range Visit Reflection #1)”
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Something Other Than Objective Risk Motivates Defensive Gun Ownership (Light Over Heat #46)
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 something other than objective risk motivates defensive gun ownership. From a sociological perspective, thatContinue reading “Something Other Than Objective Risk Motivates Defensive Gun Ownership (Light Over Heat #46)”
The Woman’s Gun Pamphlet: A Primer on Handguns (1975)
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 living in danger of attackContinue reading “The Woman’s Gun Pamphlet: A Primer on Handguns (1975)”
The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership
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 America: What Works and What is Possible.” Specifically, the editors invited me “toContinue reading “The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership”
Light Over Heat #3: The Changing Face of Gun Owners Today
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 Firearms Survey, highlights the diversity of contemporary gun owners. The second survey, a 2021Continue reading “Light Over Heat #3: The Changing Face of Gun Owners Today”
Sociology of Guns Seminar Student Final Reflection #6: Gun Culture is Much More Complex Than It Seems
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 several such essays, written by a student whoseContinue reading “Sociology of Guns Seminar Student Final Reflection #6: Gun Culture is Much More Complex Than It Seems”
Boston Review’s Magnificently Consistent Takes on Gun Culture
I confess to not being a regular reader of the Boston Review but my Google alert this morning for both “gun owners” and “gun culture” pointed me to a recent essay published by political philosopher Chad Kautzer, “America as a Tactical Gun Culture.” I know Kautzer from having participated in a conference on guns withContinue reading “Boston Review’s Magnificently Consistent Takes on Gun Culture”
Sociology of Guns Seminar Student Final Reflection #2: I Have Expanded My Understanding of Guns
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 second of several such essays, written by a student whoseContinue reading “Sociology of Guns Seminar Student Final Reflection #2: I Have Expanded My Understanding of Guns”
Sociology of Guns Module 7: Gender, Sexuality, and Guns
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 sociology (race, class, gender, and sexuality) intersect,Continue reading “Sociology of Guns Module 7: Gender, Sexuality, and Guns”
A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements – New Study Posted
TLDR: I just posted a publicly-accessible pre-print of a book chapter, “A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements: The American Rifleman, 1920-2019,” co-authored with recent Wake Forest University graduate (and current George Washington University Law School 1L) Riley Satterwhite and my son Paul Yamane (Wake Forest ’16). The chapter is scheduled to appear in the forthcomingContinue reading “A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements – New Study Posted”
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