Military Sociology

Four-Volume Set Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-85702-779-5
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 1584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 2994 g

Reihe: SAGE Library of Military and Strategic Studies

Early European sociologists found war, peace and the effects of both on social development to be important matters for the emerging discipline to explain and understand. Curiously, these issues faded from the sociological agenda after World War I and were not again much studied by sociologists until World War II and the long Cold War that followed. Since then to the present, studies of military sociology have grown in number and scope. Military sociology is now a well-established and respected subfield within sociology. To survey the field this collection is organized around four major themes: (1) military organization, (2) civil-military relations, (3) the experience of war, and (4) the use and control of force. Taking the origins of military sociology as a starting point: Volume One examines major trends in military organization, the increased diversity of military forces and the military profession. Volume Two considers the military's relationships with the larger society. Sociologists examine how the military is woven into the fabric of society whether as an object of social control or as a representative institution garnering public support. Volume Three is concerned with the experience of war, whether the experience is direct, gained (for example) as a soldier in combat, or indirect, when it is mediated by social constructions of language and other social symbols. Volume Four studies the concept of force, and the varying intensities of conflict across the spectrum of force. It looks at the effects of war on state formation, the problems posed by chronic war, and the prospects for peacekeeping.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Segal, David R

Burk, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE: ORIGINS OF MILITARY SOCIOLOGY
PART ONE: CLASSICAL ANTECEDENTS
How Pacifist Were the Founding Fathers? War and Violence in Classical Sociology - Sinisa Malesevic
War and Militarism in the Thought of Herbert Spencer - Fabrizio Battistelli
With an Unpublished Letter on the Anglo-Boer War
PART TWO: ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATION
Consequences of Social Science Research on the U.S. Military - Morris Janowitz
Morris Janowitz and the Origins of Sociological Research on Armed Forces and Society - James Burk
Social Science Research, War and the Military in the United States - Bernard Boëne
PART THREE: WORLD WAR II AS A PIVOT POINT
How These Volumes Came to Be Produced - Samuel Stouffer et al
Field Observations and Surveys in a Combat Zone - Robin Williams Jr
The American Soldier and Its Critics - M. Brewster Smith
What Survives the Attack on Positivism?
Cohesion and Disintegration of the Wehrmacht in World War II - Edward Shils and Morris Janowitz
The Small Warship - George Homans
PART FOUR: THE COLD WAR
Buddy Relations and Combat Performance - Roger Little
The Implications of Project Clear - Paul Foreman
Cohesion and Disintegration in the American Army - Paul Savage and Richard Gabriel
An Alternative Perspective to Savage and Gabriel - John Faris
VOLUME TWO: MILITARY ORGANIZATION
PART ONE: TRENDS IN MILITARY ORGANIZATION
The Decline of the Mass Army - Morris Janowitz
The Decline of the Mass Army in the West - Jacques van Doorn
PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL/OCCUPATIONAL THESIS
From Institution to Occupation - Charles Moskos
Trends in Military Organization
Measuring the Institutional/Occupational Change Thesis - David Segal
PART FOUR: THE POSTMODERN MILITARY
Toward a Postmodern Military - Charles Moskos
The United States as a Paradigm
Are Post-Cold War Militaries Postmodern? - Bradford Booth, Meyer Kestnbaum and David Segal
PART FIVE: ALTERNATE SOURCES OF PERSONNEL: RESERVES AND CIVILIANS
The Naval Reservist - Louis Zurcher Jr
An Empirical Assessment of Ephemeral Role Enactment
The U.S. Navy's Maiden Voyage - Ryan Kelty
Effects of Integrating Sailors and Civilian Mariners on Deployment
PART SIX: RECRUITMENT
Who Chooses Military Service? - Jerald Bachman et al
College, Jobs or the Military - Meredith Kleykamp
Enlistment during a Time of War
PART SEVEN: SOCIAL COMPOSITION
Hispanics and African Americans in the U.S. Military - Mady Wechsler Segal et al
Trends in Representation
Women's Military Roles Cross-Nationally - Mady Wechsler Segal
Don't Ask, Don't Tell - Aaron Belkin
Is the Gay Ban Based on Military Necessity?
PART EIGHT: THE MILITARY PROFESSION
Studies in the Genesis of the Naval Profession - Norbert Elias
Professionals in Violence - Morris Janowitz
Power, Expertise and the Military Profession - Samuel Huntington
The Late Profession of Arms - Philip Abrams
Ambiguous Goals and Deteriorating Means in Britain
Explaining the Construction of Professionalism in the Military - Julia Evetts
History, Concepts and Theories
VOLUME THREE: CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS
PART ONE: CIVILIAN CONTROL
Power, Professionalism and Civilian Control - Samuel Huntington
Military Professionalism and Civilian Control - Arthur Larson
Crisis as Shirking - Peter Feaver
An Agency Theory Explanation of the Souring of American Civil-Military Relations
PART TWO: MILITARY FAMILIES
The Military and the Family as Greedy Institutions - Mady Wechseler Segal
Family Formation in the U.S. Military - Jennifer Hickes Lundquist and Herbert Smith
Evidence from the NLSY
When Race Makes No Difference - Jennifer Hickes Lundquist
Marriage and the Military
Military Families and Children during Operation Iraqi Freedom - Stephen Cozza, Ryo Chun and James Polo
PART THREE: PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE MILITARY
What Costs Will Democracies Bear? A Review of Popular T

Über Autor(innen)

Segal, David R
David R. Segal is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, and Founding Director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland. He is a past editor of Armed Forces & Society and a past president of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and spent the first decade of his academic career at the University of Michigan. He directed the sociological research program at the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences during the transition from conscription to an all-recruited army. He has testified to several congressional committees and served as a consultant to the White House and to several federal agencies. He continues to conduct research and publish on military personnel and organizational issues. He serves as a Selective Service board member and as a member of the Army Education Advisory Committee.

Burk, James
James Burk is a professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. His current research interests include civil-military relations, democratic citizenship, and the ethics of humanitarian interventions.