David C Lane
Biographic Data
| ID | 276777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Lane |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lane |
| SIGNATURE | LANE D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1059-8686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
My Gig as a Tattoo Expert, and What It’s Taught Me about the Sociology of Expertise
This case study contributes toward the literature on the sociology of expertise by documenting the diffusion of sociological knowledge to audiences outside of the profession. Data were collected from the author’s own career as a tattoo expert, including mass media experiences and representation, work with legal teams and development of legal opinions, and testimony. This study examines the process of this career, and the lessons learned that can …
Engaging with diverse worldviews using system dynamics
This Comment responds to the work by Blumberga (2024) by considering further the potential that System Dynamics modelling—SD—has for dealing with stakeholders holding a range of worldviews. It does so by exploring the methodological assumptions of SD, emphasising the field's aspiration to be used in participative mode, commenting on contemporary examples of division, and reiterating the importance of supporting accommodation amongst those holding…
Managing sustainability using system dynamics: Selected papers from the Tenth European System Dynamics Workshop, at the University of Stuttgart, Germany
The contents of this special issue have three things in common.First, all draw their methodology from the field of System Dynamics modelling, or SD (Forrester, 1958(Forrester, , 1961(Forrester, , 1968)).Second, early versions of the ideas published here were first presented at a workshop that took place in Stuttgart in June 2023.Third and last, they all relate to the topic "Managing Sustainability."Each of these commonalities merits brief comment…
Introduction: Notes on the Social Construction of Expertise
Global Agenda for Social Justice 2
Open For All: The OERu’s Next Generation Digital Learning Ecosystem
This paper describes the functionality, scalability, and cost of implementing and maintaining a suite of open source technologies, which have supported hundreds of thousands of learners in the past year, on an information technology infrastructure budget of less than US$10,000 per year. In addition, it reviews pedagogical opportunities offered by a fully open digital learning ecosystem, as well as benefits for learners and educators alike. The Op…
Addressing public health and security challenges with system dynamics
Businesses, Places, and Homicide: A Preliminary Empirical Examination
This paper empirically examines the relations between homicide rates by age (adults 18 to 24 and adults 25 or older), the tattoo shop density, on-site and off-site alcohol outlets, and disadvantage. It offers an additional explanation for the relation between alcohol outlets and homicide besides alcohol availability and consumption being facilitators of such lethal violence, suggesting that these businesses are a proxy for attracting those most p…
Understanding body modification: A process‐based framework
This manuscript evaluates existing literature on body modification. Prior research has focused on the modification itself, either the motivation for attaining it or the meanings behind it from the perspective of the wearer. Considering these prior findings, scholars have neglected to examine how body modifications are the outcome of a complex social process. This manuscript rectifies these weaknesses by addressing the field of body modification t…
Tat's All Folks: An Analysis of Tattoo Literature
The purpose of this manuscript is to review the existing literature on the subject of tattooing. By focusing on the unit of analysis, this paper demonstrates that little is actually known about the process of tattooing. This review highlights how research on the subject is concentrated on understanding tattoo wearers. Existing literature on tattooing can be summarized into one of four general themes or sets of findings: tattooed individuals, grou…
Institutional Fads and the Medicalization of Drug Addiction
The purpose of this article is to historically review biologically based explanations of drug addiction to demonstrate the increased utility of the institutional fads approach in understanding modern medicalization. Our examination reveals that the medicalization of drug addiction has been long in the making, traveling through numerous fads that have attributed drug addiction to various biological matter, including body type or constitution, gene…
Exposing Cults: When the Skeptical Mind Confronts the Mystical
Journal Article Exposing Cults: When the Skeptical Mind Confronts the Mystical, by David Christopher Lane. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1994, 285 pp. $45.00 (hbk.) Get access Thomas Robbins Thomas Robbins Rochester, MN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 56, Issue 4, Winter 1995, Pages 455–456, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712208 Published: 01 December 1995
Pluralism and Social Conflict: A Social Analysis of the Communist World
Foreword by Immanuel Wallerstein Introduction Evolution of Classes and Class Policy Social Structure and Scientific-Technological Revolution Social Conflict Generated by Reform Summary and Conclusions Selected Bibliography Index
The Himalayan Connection: UFOs and the Chandian Effect
A major problem facing the study of unidentified flying object sighting reports is the lack of an accurate and comprehensive classification system. What are subsumed under the term "U.F.O.'s" are not merely extra-terrestial space crafts but a whole array of psychological, sociological, and even religious phenomena. In order to alleviate the "category errors" inherent in such a diverse field, I have employed the discoveries of Pandit Faqir Chand (…
Racial equality in Britain
Social Groups in Polish Society
Tat's All Folks: An Analysis of Tattoo Literature
The purpose of this manuscript is to review the existing literature on the subject of tattooing. By focusing on the unit of analysis, this paper demonstrates that little is actually known about the process of tattooing. This review highlights how research on the subject is concentrated on understanding tattoo wearers. Existing literature on tattooing can be summarized into one of four general themes or sets of findings: tattooed individuals, grou…
Institutional Fads and the Medicalization of Drug Addiction
The purpose of this article is to historically review biologically based explanations of drug addiction to demonstrate the increased utility of the institutional fads approach in understanding modern medicalization. Our examination reveals that the medicalization of drug addiction has been long in the making, traveling through numerous fads that have attributed drug addiction to various biological matter, including body type or constitution, gene…
Understanding body modification: A process‐based framework
This manuscript evaluates existing literature on body modification. Prior research has focused on the modification itself, either the motivation for attaining it or the meanings behind it from the perspective of the wearer. Considering these prior findings, scholars have neglected to examine how body modifications are the outcome of a complex social process. This manuscript rectifies these weaknesses by addressing the field of body modification t…
Pluralism and Social Conflict: A Social Analysis of the Communist World
Foreword by Immanuel Wallerstein Introduction Evolution of Classes and Class Policy Social Structure and Scientific-Technological Revolution Social Conflict Generated by Reform Summary and Conclusions Selected Bibliography Index
Social Groups in Polish Society
Racial equality in Britain
The Himalayan Connection: UFOs and the Chandian Effect
A major problem facing the study of unidentified flying object sighting reports is the lack of an accurate and comprehensive classification system. What are subsumed under the term "U.F.O.'s" are not merely extra-terrestial space crafts but a whole array of psychological, sociological, and even religious phenomena. In order to alleviate the "category errors" inherent in such a diverse field, I have employed the discoveries of Pandit Faqir Chand (…
Pluralism and Social Conflict: A Social Analysis of the Communist World
Foreword by Immanuel Wallerstein Introduction Evolution of Classes and Class Policy Social Structure and Scientific-Technological Revolution Social Conflict Generated by Reform Summary and Conclusions Selected Bibliography Index
Exposing Cults: When the Skeptical Mind Confronts the Mystical
Journal Article Exposing Cults: When the Skeptical Mind Confronts the Mystical, by David Christopher Lane. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1994, 285 pp. $45.00 (hbk.) Get access Thomas Robbins Thomas Robbins Rochester, MN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 56, Issue 4, Winter 1995, Pages 455–456, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712208 Published: 01 December 1995
Institutional Fads and the Medicalization of Drug Addiction
The purpose of this article is to historically review biologically based explanations of drug addiction to demonstrate the increased utility of the institutional fads approach in understanding modern medicalization. Our examination reveals that the medicalization of drug addiction has been long in the making, traveling through numerous fads that have attributed drug addiction to various biological matter, including body type or constitution, gene…
Tat's All Folks: An Analysis of Tattoo Literature
The purpose of this manuscript is to review the existing literature on the subject of tattooing. By focusing on the unit of analysis, this paper demonstrates that little is actually known about the process of tattooing. This review highlights how research on the subject is concentrated on understanding tattoo wearers. Existing literature on tattooing can be summarized into one of four general themes or sets of findings: tattooed individuals, grou…
Understanding body modification: A process‐based framework
This manuscript evaluates existing literature on body modification. Prior research has focused on the modification itself, either the motivation for attaining it or the meanings behind it from the perspective of the wearer. Considering these prior findings, scholars have neglected to examine how body modifications are the outcome of a complex social process. This manuscript rectifies these weaknesses by addressing the field of body modification t…
Addressing public health and security challenges with system dynamics
Businesses, Places, and Homicide: A Preliminary Empirical Examination
This paper empirically examines the relations between homicide rates by age (adults 18 to 24 and adults 25 or older), the tattoo shop density, on-site and off-site alcohol outlets, and disadvantage. It offers an additional explanation for the relation between alcohol outlets and homicide besides alcohol availability and consumption being facilitators of such lethal violence, suggesting that these businesses are a proxy for attracting those most p…
Open For All: The OERu’s Next Generation Digital Learning Ecosystem
This paper describes the functionality, scalability, and cost of implementing and maintaining a suite of open source technologies, which have supported hundreds of thousands of learners in the past year, on an information technology infrastructure budget of less than US$10,000 per year. In addition, it reviews pedagogical opportunities offered by a fully open digital learning ecosystem, as well as benefits for learners and educators alike. The Op…
Global Agenda for Social Justice 2
Engaging with diverse worldviews using system dynamics
This Comment responds to the work by Blumberga (2024) by considering further the potential that System Dynamics modelling—SD—has for dealing with stakeholders holding a range of worldviews. It does so by exploring the methodological assumptions of SD, emphasising the field's aspiration to be used in participative mode, commenting on contemporary examples of division, and reiterating the importance of supporting accommodation amongst those holding…
Managing sustainability using system dynamics: Selected papers from the Tenth European System Dynamics Workshop, at the University of Stuttgart, Germany
The contents of this special issue have three things in common.First, all draw their methodology from the field of System Dynamics modelling, or SD (Forrester, 1958(Forrester, , 1961(Forrester, , 1968)).Second, early versions of the ideas published here were first presented at a workshop that took place in Stuttgart in June 2023.Third and last, they all relate to the topic "Managing Sustainability."Each of these commonalities merits brief comment…
Introduction: Notes on the Social Construction of Expertise
My Gig as a Tattoo Expert, and What It’s Taught Me about the Sociology of Expertise
This case study contributes toward the literature on the sociology of expertise by documenting the diffusion of sociological knowledge to audiences outside of the profession. Data were collected from the author’s own career as a tattoo expert, including mass media experiences and representation, work with legal teams and development of legal opinions, and testimony. This study examines the process of this career, and the lessons learned that can …
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