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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- Authors:
- Scott, Wilbur J. (University of Oklahoma)|De Angelis, Karin Modesto (U.S. Air Force Academy)|Segal, David R. (University of Maryland, USA)
- Year Published:
- 2022
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781032252919
- Number of Pages:
- 238
- Publication Date:
- 30/12/2022
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Illustrations Note:
- 10 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781032252919