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Military Sociology
A Guided Introduction
- 238 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
This textbook introduces the reader to the field of military sociology through narrative reviews of selected key studies in the discipline.
The book provides a guided introduction. In each chapter, the authors set the stage and then immerse the reader in Spotlights – that is, descriptions of essential studies that inform the discipline of military sociology. The goal is to afford readers a ready pathway into how sociologists and social scientists have thought about topics in the study of the military and war.
Topics covered in the book include:
- What is military sociology? What does it have to offer in understanding armed forces, wars, and societies?
- What basic tools are needed to ply sociological, or more broadly, social science perspectives for studying war and the military?
- What are the bio-social bases of war? What does the spectrum of such societally organized violence look like?
- How do societies raise and maintain formal militaries? What are variations in their social composition and in the profiles of civil–military relations?
- How and why is military organization and war changing so dramatically in the 21st-century? What does the future hold?
This book will be of great interest to students of military sociology, the armed forces and society, peace studies, and International Relations.
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Yes, you can access Military Sociology by Wilbur J. Scott,Karin Modesto De Angelis,David R. Segal in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Military & Maritime History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Spotlighted Studies
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- About the Authors
- 1 The Advent of a Field
- 2 Sociology and Military Sociology
- 3 Biological and Cultural Bases of Warfare
- 4 The Military as a Bureaucracy and as a Profession
- 5 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines (and Terrorists): Who Fights and Why They Fight
- 6 Race and Ethnicity in Society and in the Military
- 7 Gender and Sexuality in Society and in the Military
- 8 Spectrum of Conflict: “Big” Wars
- 9 Spectrum of Conflict: “Small” Wars
- 10 Spectrum of Conflict: “New” Wars
- 11 Military Families
- 12 Veterans and Veterans’ Issues
- 13 Parting Thoughts: What May Lie Ahead
- Index