By: James Burk (Editor), David R. Segal (Editor)

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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.

Origins of Military Sociology
Classical Antecedents
How Pacifist Were the Founding Fathers? War and Violence in Classical Sociology
War and Militarism in the Thought of Herbert Spencer
With an Unpublished Letter on the Anglo-Boer War
Academic Specialization
Consequences of Social Science Research on the U.S. Military
Morris Janowitz and the Origins of Sociological Research on Armed Forces and Society
Social Science Research, War and the Military in the United States
World War II as a Pivot Point
How These Volumes Came to Be Produced
Field Observations and Surveys in a Combat Zone
The American Soldier and Its Critics
What Survives the Attack on Positivism?
Cohesion and Disintegration of the Wehrmacht in World War II
The Small Warship
The Cold War
Buddy Relations and Combat Performance
The Implications of Project Clear
Cohesion and Disintegration in the American Army
An Alternative Perspective to Savage and Gabriel
Military Organization
Trends in Military Organization
The Decline of the Mass Army
The Decline of the Mass Army in the West
Institutional/Occupational Thesis
From Institution to Occupation
Trends in Military Organization
Measuring the Institutional/Occupational Change Thesis
The Postmodern Military
Toward a Postmodern Military
The United States as a Paradigm
Are Post-Cold War Militaries Postmodern?
Alternate Sources of Personnel: Reserves and Civilians
The Naval Reservist
An Empirical Assessment of Ephemeral Role Enactment
The U.S. Navy's Maiden Voyage
Effects of Integrating Sailors and Civilian Mariners on Deployment
Recruitment
Who Chooses Military Service?
College, Jobs or the Military
Enlistment during a Time of War
Social Composition
Hispanics and African Americans in the U.S. Military
Trends in Representation
Women's Military Roles Cross-Nationally
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Is the Gay Ban Based on Military Necessity?
The Military Profession
Studies in the Genesis of the Naval Profession
Professionals in Violence
Power, Expertise and the Military Profession
The Late Profession of Arms
Ambiguous Goals and Deteriorating Means in Britain
Explaining the Construction of Professionalism in the Military
History, Concepts and Theories
Civil-Military Relations
Civilian Control
Power, Professionalism and Civilian Control
Military Professionalism and Civilian Control
Crisis as Shirking
An Agency Theory Explanation of the Souring of American Civil-Military Relations
Military Families
The Military and the Family as Greedy Institutions
Family Formation in the U.S. Military
Evidence from the Nlsy
When Race Makes No Difference
Marriage and the Military
Military Families and Children during Operation Iraqi Freedom
Public Support For The Military
What Costs Will Democracies Bear? a Review of Popular Theories of Casualty Aversion
Public Support for Peacekeeping in Lebanon and Somalia
Assessing the Casualties Hypothesis
Success Matters
Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq
Militarization of Society
The Idea and Nature of Militarism
a Nation-in-Arms
State, Nation and Militarism in Israel's First Years
The New Militarism
Major Armed Conflicts, Militarization and Life Chances
a Pooled Time-Series Analysis
Experience of War
How Military Service Affects Veterans
a School for the Nation? How Military Service Does Not Build Nations, and How It Might
Combat Experience and Emotional Health Impairment and Resilience in Later Life
Racial Differences in the Impact of Military Service on the Socioeconomic Status of Women Veterans
20th Century Theories on Combat Motivation and Breakdown
Talking About War
The Rhetoric of American Foreign Policy
Rhetoric, Public Opinion and Policy in the American Debate over the Japanese Emperor during World War II
Rhetorical Persuasion and Storytelling in the Military
Remembering War
War Poetry, Romanticism and the Return of the Sacred
Woman, Citizenship and Civic Sacrifice
Engendering Patriotism in the First World War
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Commemorating a Difficult Past
Remembering and Forgetting the War Elite: Mythmaking, Mass Reaction and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1950-2006
The Use and Control of Force
The Use of Force
The Logic of War
Strategic Assumptions and Moral Implications of the Constabulary Force
Theories of the New Western Way of War
What Are Armed Forces For? The Changing Nature of Military Roles in Europe
War and State Formation in Historical Perspective
How War Made States and vice versa
Why No Trade-off between 'Guns and Butter'? Armed Forces and Social Spending in the Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1960-1993
American Exceptionalism Revisited
The Military-Industrial Complex, Racial Tension and the Underdeveloped Welfare State
Chronic Wars and Social Transformation
The Garrison State
The Military Ascendancy
Why Didn't the United States Become a Garrison State?
Peacekeeping
U.N. Peacekeepers
The Constabulary Ethic and Military Professionalism
Is a Peacekeeping Culture Emerging among American Infantry in the Sinai MFO?
Misplaced Loyalties
The Role of Military Culture in the Breakdown of Discipline in Peace Operations
Military Culture and Strategic Peacekeeping
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ISBN: 9780857027795
ISBN-10: 0857027794
Series: Sage Library of Military and Strategic Studies
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 1584
Published: 16th December 2011
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 12.4
Weight (kg): 2.994