Following the recent Viriginia television team murders we’re reposting Mabel Berezin’s “Chair’s Message” (excerpt) in the Spring 2014 issue of the Culture Section’s Newsletter. It suggests why it is so difficult to get gun control in America from a cultural perspective.     Sociologists of various stripes structure their research around the general question: how do we know that we know it? In contrast, cultural sociologists … Continue reading Cars and Guns: Is There a Meaningful Connection?–By Mabel Berezin (Cornell University)