Handbook Of The Sociology Of The Military

Author : Giuseppe Caforio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387345765

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Handbook of the Sociology of the Military by Giuseppe Caforio Pdf

This accessible handbook is the first of its kind to examine the sociological approach to the study of the military. The contents are compiled from the work of researchers at universities around the world, as well as military officers devoted to the sector of study. Beginning with a review of studies prior to contemporary research, the book provides a comprehensive survey of the topic. The scope of coverage extends to civic-military relations, including issues surrounding democratic control of the armed forces; military culture; professional training; conditions and problems of minorities in the armed forces; an examination of structural change within the military over the years including new duties and functions following the Cold War.

Author : Seth Abrutyn,Omar Lizardo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030782054

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Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory by Seth Abrutyn,Omar Lizardo Pdf

This is the first handbook focussing on classical social theory. It offers extensive discussions of debates, arguments, and discussions in classical theory and how they have informed contemporary sociological theory. The book pushes against the conventional classical theory pedagogy, which often focused on single theorists and their contributions, and looks at isolating themes capturing the essence of the interest of classical theorists that seem to have relevance to modern research questions and theoretical traditions. This book presents new approaches to thinking about theory in relationship to sociological methods.

Author : Joseph Soeters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351724265

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Sociology and Military Studies by Joseph Soeters Pdf

This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic world, and is mostly focused on civil-military relations. This book seeks to address this gap and combines ideas, theories and insights from sociology’s founding authors, with each chapter focusing on a specific thinker. There are chapters on Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Morris Janowitz, Norbert Elias, Cornelis Lammers, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Cynthia Enloe and Bruno Latour, and each essay discusses their ideas and theories in relation to topics that are of concern in and around the military today. Military studies are taken in a broad sense here, so the volume encompasses a wide range of issues, including civil-military relations, military-political affairs, performance and outcomes of military operations, and organizational arrangements including technology and the composition, performance and well-being of personnel. The book intends to provide views and insights that will help the military to innovate their organizations and practices, not necessarily in the usual functional way of innovating (i.e. faster, more precise, etc.) but in a broader way. This book will be of great interest to students of sociology, military studies, civil-military relations, war and conflict studies, and IR in general.

Author : Morris Janowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258346699

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Sociology and the Military Establishment by Morris Janowitz Pdf

Author : Steven Carlton-Ford,Morten G. Ender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136919381

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The Routledge Handbook of War and Society by Steven Carlton-Ford,Morten G. Ender Pdf

This new handbook provides an introduction to current sociological and behavioral research on the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent two of the most interesting and potentially troubling events of recent decades. These two wars-so similar in their beginnings-generated different responses from various publics and the mass media; they have had profound effects on the members of the armed services, on their families and relatives, and on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Analyzing the effect of the two wars on military personnel and civilians, this volume is divided into four main parts: Part I: War on the Ground: Combat and Its Aftermath Part II: War on the Ground: Non-Combat Operations, Noncombatants, and Operators Part III: The War Back Home: The Social Construction of War, Its Heroes, And Its Enemies Part IV: The War Back Home: Families and Youth on the Home Front With contributions from leading academic sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, military researchers, and researchers affiliated with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), this Handbook will be of interest to students of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, military sociology and psychology, war studies, anthropology, US politics, and of youth. Steven Carlton-Ford is associate professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. He recently served for five years as the editor of Sociological Focus. Morten G. Ender is professor of sociology and Sociology Program Director at West Point, the United States Military Academy. He is the author of American Soldiers in Iraq (Routledge 2009).

Author : Inter-university Seminar on Armed Forces and Society
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1971-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015031967717

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Handbook Military Institutions by Inter-university Seminar on Armed Forces and Society Pdf

Author : Joseph Soeters,Patricia M. Shields,Sebastiaan Rietjens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136203312

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Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies by Joseph Soeters,Patricia M. Shields,Sebastiaan Rietjens Pdf

This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies. As an institution relying on individuals and resources provided by society, the military has been studied by scholars from a wide range of disciplines: political science, sociology, history, psychology, anthropology, economics and administrative studies. The methodological approaches in these disciplines vary from computational modelling of conflicts and surveys of military performance, to the qualitative study of military stories from the battlefield and veterans experiences. Rapidly developing technological facilities (more powerful hardware, more sophisticated software, digitalization of documents and pictures) render the methodologies in use more dynamic than ever. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies offers a comprehensive and dynamic overview of these developments as they emerge in the many approaches to military studies. The chapters in this Handbook are divided over four parts: starting research, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, and finalizing a study, and every chapter starts with the description of a well-published study illustrating the methodological issues that will be dealt with in that particular chapter. Hence, this Handbook not only provides methodological know-how, but also offers a useful overview of military studies from a variety of research perspectives. This Handbook will be of much interest to students of military studies, security and war studies, civil-military relations, military sociology, political science and research methods in general.

Author : Eyal Ben-Ari,Helena Carreiras,Celso Castro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000483208

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Understanding the Impact of Social Research on the Military by Eyal Ben-Ari,Helena Carreiras,Celso Castro Pdf

This book seeks to chart and evaluate the impact of social research on the military itself. By "impact", the authors in this volume simply mean that which has a marked effect or influence on changing military policy, practices, knowledge, skills, behaviour, or living conditions. The book comprises a series of reflective contributions from scholars who have conducted research on the military as external scholars with no formal ties to the armed forces, as "native" researchers formally linked to them, as well as various kinds of contracted social scientists enabled by the military to carry out their investigations. The authors were asked to make the question of the impact of social scientific research on the armed forces an object of study in itself and to situate their reflections in terms of wider analytical questions. As a result, the chapters can be divided, broadly speaking, into two types of orientation: some are centered on theoretical and analytical issues, while others focus on the researchers’ lived experiences. This book will be of interest to students of military studies, sociology, organisational studies, psychology and political science.

Author : Rachel Woodward,Claire Duncanson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137516770

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military by Rachel Woodward,Claire Duncanson Pdf

The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and militaries connect. International and multi-disciplinary in scope, this edited volume provides authoritative accounts of the many intersections through which militaries issues and military forces are shaped by gender. The chapters provide detailed accounts of key issues, informed by examples from original research in a wealth of different national contexts. This Handbook includes coverage of conceptual approaches to the study of gender and militaries, gender and the organisation of state military forces, gender as it pertains to military forces in action, transitions and transgressions within militaries, gender and non-state military forces, and gender in representations of military personnel and practices. With contributions from a range of both established and early career scholars, The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military is an essential guide to current debates on gender and contemporary military issues.

Author : Carol S. Aneshensel,Jo C. Phelan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387362236

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Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health by Carol S. Aneshensel,Jo C. Phelan Pdf

This handbook describes ways in which society shapes the mental health of its members, and shapes the lives of those who have been identified as mentally ill. The text explores the social conditions that lead to behaviors defined as mental illness, and the ways in which the concept of mental illness is socially constructed around those behaviors. The book also reviews research that examines socially conditioned responses to mental illness on the part of individuals and institutions, and ways in which these responses affect persons with mental illness. It evaluates where the field has been, identifies its current location and plots a course for the future.

Author : David D. Franks,Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400744738

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Handbook of Neurosociology by David D. Franks,Jonathan H. Turner Pdf

Until recently, a handbook on neurosociology would have been viewed with skepticism by sociologists, who have long been protective of their disciplinary domain against perceived encroachment by biology. But a number of developments in the last decade or so have made sociologists more receptive to biological factors in sociology and social psychology. Much of this has been encouraged by the coeditors of this volume, David Franks and Jonathan Turner. This new interest has been increased by the explosion of research in neuroscience on brain functioning and brain-environment interaction (via new MRI technologies), with implications for social and psychological functioning. This handbook emphasizes the integration of perspectives within sociology as well as between fields in social neuroscience. For example, Franks represents a social constructionist position following from G.H. Mead’s voluntaristic theory of the act while Turner is more social structural and positivistic. Furthermore, this handbook not only contains contributions from sociologists, but leading figures from the psychological perspective of social neuroscience.

Author : Barbara Schneider
Publisher : Springer
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319766942

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Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century by Barbara Schneider Pdf

This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today’s populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences of inequality. This handbook, while reviewing many of these explanations, takes a different approach, concentrating instead on what needs to be accomplished to reduce inequality. A special section is devoted to new methodological work for studying social systems, including network analyses and school and teacher effects. Additionally, the book explores the changing landscape of higher education institutions, their respective populations, and how labor market opportunities are enhanced or impeded by differing postsecondary education pathways. Written by leading sociologists and rising stars in the field, each of the chapters is embedded in theory, but contemporary and futuristic in its implications. This Handbook serves as a blueprint for identifying new work for sociologists of education and other scholars and policymakers trying to understand many of the problems of inequality in education and what is needed to address them.

Author : Jean M. Callaghan,Franz Kernic
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 3825872270

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Armed Forces and International Security by Jean M. Callaghan,Franz Kernic Pdf

Designed as a textbook and interdisciplinary reference for the social sciences, this volume examines key issues in the current global security agenda and relationships between armed forces and society around the world. The book's concise chapters - on a broad range of themes related to national and international security, military sociology, and civil-military relations - were written by experts from 18 countries. This volume also has a groundbreaking section, which - using country studies and regional overviews - discusses civil-military relations in as well as the most salient theoretical and practical features of current means of democratic control of the armed forces in the early 21st century.

Author : Helena Carreiras,Celso Castro,Sabina Frederic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317402626

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Researching the Military by Helena Carreiras,Celso Castro,Sabina Frederic Pdf

Researching the Military focuses on the experiences of researchers who study the military around the world. It explores the historical, social, institutional and personal factors that frame research and scrutinize the way knowledge in this area impacts society and policy. More than merely analyzing research experiences (yet necessarily including them), it is also about the experiences of researchers, their position with regard to the object of their studies, the institutional context where they work and the way their research impacts the academic and policy-making fields in the respective countries. The common theme to the various chapters is reflexivity, a conscious effort at addressing the conditions of research and the position of the researcher and the research participants in that interface. By collecting diverse experiences of researchers from across the world, this volume aims to enhance reflexivity in the field of military studies and to encourage the exchange of knowledge between the academic field and the military arena. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, research methods, sociology, social anthropology and security studies, in general.

Author : Stella R Quah,Arnaud Sales
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39076002207616

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The International Handbook of Sociology by Stella R Quah,Arnaud Sales Pdf

`The most up-to-date survey of the range of research in contemporary sociology, extremely useful to students, teachers, and researchers alike. Indispensable for collective and personal libraries' - Immanuel Wallerstein, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, ParisThis unique Handbook provides state-of-the-art reviews of sociology conducted by prominent scholars. Drawing on dedicated knowledge and expertise, the book constitutes an unrivalled guide to the central theoretical and methodological perspectives in the discipline as a whole.The book is organized into six parts:o conceptual perspectiveso social and cultural differentiationo changing institutions and collective actiono demography, cities and housingo art and leisureo social problemsEach chapter includes a comprehensive review of the literature, covering the full range of work from contrasting traditions of thought and approaches.No existing work matches this Handbook for scholarly coverage and relevance. It is a primary resource for understanding the discipline. As such, it will appeal to lecturers, researchers and advanced graduate and undergraduate students in Sociology.