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Informationen zum Autor David R. Segal is a professor of sociology and director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland. He has served as President of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, and is on its Board of Directors. His research and publications cover a wide range of military manpower, personnel, organizational, and operational issues. James Burk is a professor of sociology and a Cornerstone Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University. His research explores the relationship between the military and liberal democracies. His publications contribute to on-going debates about the use of force, the citizen-soldier, the military profession, military culture, and theories of civil-military relations. A long-time fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, he has served on its executive council since 1991. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Military sociology is now a well-established and respected subfield within sociology. This collection surveys the field for academics! advanced students and researchers interested in war and peace and their relation to social development! and is organized around four major themes: military organization! civil-military relations! the experience of war! and the use and control of force. 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 Pos...
