by David Yamane | Dec 23, 2021 | Boston Review, Chad Kautzer, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat
In approaching the scholarly literature in my Sociology of Guns seminar, I tell my students that they need to read in two steps: reading WITH the grain of a text and reading AGAINST the grain. I take these ideas from David Bartholomae and Aaron Petrosky’s Ways...
by David Yamane | Dec 21, 2021 | gun safety, intimate partner violence, John Johnston, Melody Lauer, Risk, Rob Pincus, 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. This is the eighth and...
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 | Dec 20, 2021 | diversity, 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 seventh of...
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...
