Camouflaged Collectives: Managing Stigma and Identity at Gun Events

Blithe, Sarah Jane; Lanterman, Jennifer L.

doi:10.26522/ssj.v11i1.1313

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“…We integrated disciplinary knowledge, as well as discipline-preferred data collection and analytical methods, to address the National Research Collaborative on Firearm Violence's call for qualitative firearms research 'to identify factors that influence individual and group firearm behavior' Blithe 2018: 31, Weiner et al 2007). Thus far, this interdisciplinary collaboration has produced two journal articles, including one in which we identified stigma and identity management practices in gun collectives (Blithe and Lanterman 2017) and another in which we examined the firearm culture socialization of young children at gun shows (Lanterman and Blithe 2018). The interdisciplinary nature of these papers suggests that neither of us would have independently been able to produce the same work.…”

Section: The Benefits Challenges and Disincentives Of Interdisciplimentioning

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Benefits, Challenges, and Disincentives of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Lanterman¹,

Blithe²

2019

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Research consistently demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary collaboration. It has also become common for universities to encourage their faculty to engage in interdisciplinary and collaborative research. However, there are several challenges and disincentives to this type of work. In this article, we draw on a single case study of a project employing interdisciplinary collaborative event ethnography (CEE) to demonstrate the benefits, challenges, and disincentives of this approach to research. We highlight the enhanced and nuanced outcomes achieved through interdisciplinary collaboration that would likely not have been achieved through an intradisciplinary approach to the research questions. The case study also highlights the challenges and disincentives associated with this research strategy, including longer work times, difficulty in publishing due to editorial and reviewer criticism about violating methods preferences or disciplinary boundaries, and issues related to publications outside of one’s field. We conclude with a call to enhance the incentives associated with interdisciplinary collaborative research.

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Benefits, Challenges, and Disincentives of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Lanterman¹,

Blithe²

2019

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“…Given the present political upheaval in American culture, it is legitimate to ask why some people do not own guns. Some social structures discourage gun ownership and even result in negative responses to ownership (Blithe and Lanterman 2017). Potential owners may need to justify ownership to themselves and others by relying on cultural and ideological positions.…”

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Who Might Buy a Gun? Results from the Guns in American Life Survey

Kelley

Ellison

2021

Sociological Inquiry

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We explore patterns and correlates of gun ownership in the United States, with a particular focus on differentiating those who will never own a gun (“nevers”) and those who are open to ownership in the future (“maybes”) from current‐owners. We use the Guns in American Life Survey (GALS), collected in September of 2018 (n = 3,103), to explore the role of several classes of factors in shaping experiences and attitudes, including socialization, fear and victimization, ideology (confidence in the police, punitiveness, justifiable violence, and gun “science” research), and preparedness. Descriptive findings suggest that maybe‐owners are similar to never‐owners in some ways in background factors (e.g., tending to be women, lower‐income, and not living in a rural area) and more like owners in other ways (e.g., conservative, Republican, and with children in the home). Regression results reveal some anticipated patterns and other unexpected ones. For example, past victimization differentiates the maybes from the nevers but not from the owners. Worry about mass and school shootings leads one away from gun ownership, while worry about terrorist attacks leads toward it. Curiously, greater confidence in the police is highest for the maybes. They are solidly in the middle on other ideological issues, including beliefs in justifiable violence and gun “science” research. We find different ideological issues come together as a continuum of gun ownership status. Finally, those most likely to buy a gun have owned one previously and cycle in and out of gun ownership. They have also used agency by taking other steps to protect themselves. Our findings identify a new subset of occasional owners and illuminate the process of moving toward gun acquisition.

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“…As a result, stigmatized categories encounter stakeholder disengagement (Piazza & Perretti, 2015; Pontikes, Negro, & Rao, 2010), identity struggles (Tracey & Phillips, 2016) and employee devaluation (Sutton & Callahan, 1987). Because stigmatizing attributes are persistent, firms are more likely to engage in privacy and secrecy (Blithe & Lanterman, 2017; Vergne, 2012; Wolfe & Blithe, 2015) or disengage from a stigmatized category than seek to redefine it actively (Durand & Vergne, 2015; Piazza & Perretti, 2015).…”

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The Dynamics of (De)Stigmatization: Boundary construction in the nascent category of organic farming

Siltaoja

Lähdesmäki

Granqvist

et al. 2020

Organization Studies

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This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatization through discursive reconstruction of the central and distinctive characteristics of the category in question. We examined the emerging market of organic farming in Finland and discovered how resistance to stigmatization was both an internal and an external power struggle in the organic farming community. Over time, the label of organic farming was manipulated and the practice of farming was associated with more conventional and familiar contexts, while the stigma was diverted at the same time to biodynamic farming. We develop a process model for removal of stigma from a nascent category through stigma diversion. We find that stigma diversion forces the core community to (re)define themselves in relation to the excluded community and the mainstream. We also discuss how notoriety can be an individuating phenomenon that helps categorical members conduct identity work and contributes to stigma removal.

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Camouflaged Collectives: Managing Stigma and Identity at Gun Events

Abstract: Gun violence persists in the United

Cited by 12 publications

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Benefits, Challenges, and Disincentives of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Benefits, Challenges, and Disincentives of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Who Might Buy a Gun? Results from the Guns in American Life Survey

The Dynamics of (De)Stigmatization: Boundary construction in the nascent category of organic farming

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