Alexander B Kinney
Biographic Data
| ID | 245037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander B Kinney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kinney |
| SIGNATURE | KINNEY A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2916-1791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Locked and Unloaded
The objectives of this study were to analyze the prevalence of firearm safety training and secure gun storage practices among American gun owners. We used nationally-representative survey data to estimate the impact of previously untested predictors of secure firearm storage. Findings show that older gun owners, gun owners living in metropolitan statistical areas, and low-SES gun owners are less likely to use secure firearm storage methods. Gun o…
Becoming a Cannabis Professional
In recent years, U.S. states have relaxed their laws to permit the operation of a commercial cannabis market despite enduring federal criminalization. While media outlets commonly point to money as the primary motivator for working in the newly regulated cannabis industry, this article advances the alternative view that becoming a cannabis professional is linked to a broader process of drug-related identity formation. Interviews with cannabis pro…
Surveillance, Social Control, and Managing Semi-Legality in U.S. Commercial Cannabis
This article presents a case study of commercial cannabis in the United States. Drawing on 56 interviews with cannabis stakeholders collected between 2018–2020, I examine how different governmentalities of surveillance became distorted by the contradiction between state and federal cannabis laws. As in other regulated markets, these governmentalities informed state-sponsored surveillance initiatives to stop, contain, or support certain forms of d…
The cultural embeddedness of academic books on knowing, feeling, and queering video games
Notes1 Add to this, the rising "gamification" of services and products has rather forcefully ensured that whether we perceive ourselves as gamers or not is largely irrelevant (see Hamari, Koivisto, and Sarsa 2014 Hamari, J., J. Koivisto, and H. Sarsa. 2014. Does gamification work? A literature review of empirical studies on gamification. In Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, ed. R.H. Spragu…
Sumptuary administration
In contemporary society, sumptuary laws regulate contested markets by delegating enforcement responsibilities to the private sector. This can decouple the intention behind policies from the practices to implement them. When state interests do not align concerning the legality of a market, can policy and practice recouple, and if so, how? This article reports on a case study of commercial cannabis in the United States to answer this question. Inte…
A shame of inches
Background A popular line of media discourse has sought to provide explanations for college football's lack of diversity in the coaching ranks. A related effort has recently sought to explain why black coaches are faced with institutional barriers to success in athletic fields. While research on race and the sociology of sport has frequently focused on racial characteristics and expectations of players for on-field penalization, this literature n…
Embedding into an Emerging Money System
As global economic crises place the issue of money at the forefront of media attention, a growing minority are turning to “cryptocurrencies” as an emerging digital alternative to state-issued currencies. Bitcoin, the most popular version of this emerging medium, is a useful proxy to answer a key question to the sociology of money: how do people embed themselves into an emerging money system, and what role does value play in this process? Drawing …
Meaning structures in the world polity
Making the Grade during Pandemic
This is an article that draws on the institutional work literature about provisional institutions. To date, nearly every U.S. sector has been impacted by COVID-19. To sustain their core missions, highly institutionalized organizations such as universities have had to rethink foundational structures and policies. Using a historical ethnographic approach to investigate records from faculty senate deliberations at 'Rural State University' (RSU), the…
Masculinity, Ritual, and Racialized Status Threat
Both popular media and research often frame mass shootings as an individual issue having to do with mental illness or other individual differences. This work has unfolded in much the same fashion as that on other negative or anti-social behaviors-such as the individual pathologization of suicide or rape. However, what this work has shown empirically is that there are often a set of circumstances that are uniquely social that motivate such actions…
The Extra-Institutional Logics of an Emerging Market Field
Mature fields of market activity are characterized by clear norms, entrenched meanings, and rigid power hierarchies that stabilize logics of action. However, how do logics of action emerge in a nascent field of market activity that lacks these types of institutions? To answer this question, I draw on theories of institutions and markets to examine the experiences of 23 adopters of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin during 2015 to 2016. Utilizing an itera…
Theming for terror
Latour’s greatest hits, reassembled
It seems peculiar that a non-theory, anti-method has managed to become canonical, but that is what Bruno Latour will introduce you to in his book; the post-pluralist, post-humanist attitude called Actor-Network-Theory (ANT). Drawing together heaps of controversial research, Latour resuscitates ANT after its 1999 death (see Law and Hassard 1999). Like Graham Harman’s book about Latour, The Prince of Networks (2009), Reassembling the Social is the …
Theming for terror
Embedding into an Emerging Money System
As global economic crises place the issue of money at the forefront of media attention, a growing minority are turning to “cryptocurrencies” as an emerging digital alternative to state-issued currencies. Bitcoin, the most popular version of this emerging medium, is a useful proxy to answer a key question to the sociology of money: how do people embed themselves into an emerging money system, and what role does value play in this process? Drawing …
Meaning structures in the world polity
Sumptuary administration
In contemporary society, sumptuary laws regulate contested markets by delegating enforcement responsibilities to the private sector. This can decouple the intention behind policies from the practices to implement them. When state interests do not align concerning the legality of a market, can policy and practice recouple, and if so, how? This article reports on a case study of commercial cannabis in the United States to answer this question. Inte…
Making the Grade during Pandemic
This is an article that draws on the institutional work literature about provisional institutions. To date, nearly every U.S. sector has been impacted by COVID-19. To sustain their core missions, highly institutionalized organizations such as universities have had to rethink foundational structures and policies. Using a historical ethnographic approach to investigate records from faculty senate deliberations at 'Rural State University' (RSU), the…
Masculinity, Ritual, and Racialized Status Threat
Both popular media and research often frame mass shootings as an individual issue having to do with mental illness or other individual differences. This work has unfolded in much the same fashion as that on other negative or anti-social behaviors-such as the individual pathologization of suicide or rape. However, what this work has shown empirically is that there are often a set of circumstances that are uniquely social that motivate such actions…
Becoming a Cannabis Professional
In recent years, U.S. states have relaxed their laws to permit the operation of a commercial cannabis market despite enduring federal criminalization. While media outlets commonly point to money as the primary motivator for working in the newly regulated cannabis industry, this article advances the alternative view that becoming a cannabis professional is linked to a broader process of drug-related identity formation. Interviews with cannabis pro…
The Extra-Institutional Logics of an Emerging Market Field
Mature fields of market activity are characterized by clear norms, entrenched meanings, and rigid power hierarchies that stabilize logics of action. However, how do logics of action emerge in a nascent field of market activity that lacks these types of institutions? To answer this question, I draw on theories of institutions and markets to examine the experiences of 23 adopters of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin during 2015 to 2016. Utilizing an itera…
Latour’s greatest hits, reassembled
It seems peculiar that a non-theory, anti-method has managed to become canonical, but that is what Bruno Latour will introduce you to in his book; the post-pluralist, post-humanist attitude called Actor-Network-Theory (ANT). Drawing together heaps of controversial research, Latour resuscitates ANT after its 1999 death (see Law and Hassard 1999). Like Graham Harman’s book about Latour, The Prince of Networks (2009), Reassembling the Social is the …
Latour’s greatest hits, reassembled
It seems peculiar that a non-theory, anti-method has managed to become canonical, but that is what Bruno Latour will introduce you to in his book; the post-pluralist, post-humanist attitude called Actor-Network-Theory (ANT). Drawing together heaps of controversial research, Latour resuscitates ANT after its 1999 death (see Law and Hassard 1999). Like Graham Harman’s book about Latour, The Prince of Networks (2009), Reassembling the Social is the …
Theming for terror
The Extra-Institutional Logics of an Emerging Market Field
Mature fields of market activity are characterized by clear norms, entrenched meanings, and rigid power hierarchies that stabilize logics of action. However, how do logics of action emerge in a nascent field of market activity that lacks these types of institutions? To answer this question, I draw on theories of institutions and markets to examine the experiences of 23 adopters of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin during 2015 to 2016. Utilizing an itera…
Embedding into an Emerging Money System
As global economic crises place the issue of money at the forefront of media attention, a growing minority are turning to “cryptocurrencies” as an emerging digital alternative to state-issued currencies. Bitcoin, the most popular version of this emerging medium, is a useful proxy to answer a key question to the sociology of money: how do people embed themselves into an emerging money system, and what role does value play in this process? Drawing …
Meaning structures in the world polity
Making the Grade during Pandemic
This is an article that draws on the institutional work literature about provisional institutions. To date, nearly every U.S. sector has been impacted by COVID-19. To sustain their core missions, highly institutionalized organizations such as universities have had to rethink foundational structures and policies. Using a historical ethnographic approach to investigate records from faculty senate deliberations at 'Rural State University' (RSU), the…
Masculinity, Ritual, and Racialized Status Threat
Both popular media and research often frame mass shootings as an individual issue having to do with mental illness or other individual differences. This work has unfolded in much the same fashion as that on other negative or anti-social behaviors-such as the individual pathologization of suicide or rape. However, what this work has shown empirically is that there are often a set of circumstances that are uniquely social that motivate such actions…
A shame of inches
Background A popular line of media discourse has sought to provide explanations for college football's lack of diversity in the coaching ranks. A related effort has recently sought to explain why black coaches are faced with institutional barriers to success in athletic fields. While research on race and the sociology of sport has frequently focused on racial characteristics and expectations of players for on-field penalization, this literature n…
The cultural embeddedness of academic books on knowing, feeling, and queering video games
Notes1 Add to this, the rising "gamification" of services and products has rather forcefully ensured that whether we perceive ourselves as gamers or not is largely irrelevant (see Hamari, Koivisto, and Sarsa 2014 Hamari, J., J. Koivisto, and H. Sarsa. 2014. Does gamification work? A literature review of empirical studies on gamification. In Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, ed. R.H. Spragu…
Sumptuary administration
In contemporary society, sumptuary laws regulate contested markets by delegating enforcement responsibilities to the private sector. This can decouple the intention behind policies from the practices to implement them. When state interests do not align concerning the legality of a market, can policy and practice recouple, and if so, how? This article reports on a case study of commercial cannabis in the United States to answer this question. Inte…
Surveillance, Social Control, and Managing Semi-Legality in U.S. Commercial Cannabis
This article presents a case study of commercial cannabis in the United States. Drawing on 56 interviews with cannabis stakeholders collected between 2018–2020, I examine how different governmentalities of surveillance became distorted by the contradiction between state and federal cannabis laws. As in other regulated markets, these governmentalities informed state-sponsored surveillance initiatives to stop, contain, or support certain forms of d…
Becoming a Cannabis Professional
In recent years, U.S. states have relaxed their laws to permit the operation of a commercial cannabis market despite enduring federal criminalization. While media outlets commonly point to money as the primary motivator for working in the newly regulated cannabis industry, this article advances the alternative view that becoming a cannabis professional is linked to a broader process of drug-related identity formation. Interviews with cannabis pro…
Locked and Unloaded
The objectives of this study were to analyze the prevalence of firearm safety training and secure gun storage practices among American gun owners. We used nationally-representative survey data to estimate the impact of previously untested predictors of secure firearm storage. Findings show that older gun owners, gun owners living in metropolitan statistical areas, and low-SES gun owners are less likely to use secure firearm storage methods. Gun o…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Cannabis (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)