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"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 - i.e., 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 and studied 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, armed forces and society, peace studies and International Relations"--

"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 - i.e., 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 and studied 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, armed forces and society, peace studies and International Relations"--

"This groundbreaking work challenges modernist military science and explores how a more open design epistemology is becoming an attractive alternative to a military staff culture rooted in a monistic scientific paradigm. The author offers fresh sociological avenues to become more institutionally reflexive - to offer a variety of design frames of reference, beyond those typified by modern military doctrine. Modernist military knowledge has been institutionalized to the point that blinds militaries to alternative designs organizationally and in their interventions. This book seeks to reconstruct strategy and operations in "designing ways" and develops theories of action through multifaceted contextualizations and recontextualizations of situations, showing that Military Design does not have to rely on set rational-analytic decision-making schemes, but on seeking alternative meanings in- and on-action. The work offers an alternative philosophy of practice that embraces the unpredictability of tasks to be accomplished. Written by Colonel Paparone (U.S. Army, Ret., PhD) with a special chapter by two active duty officers, it will appeal to all in military and security studies, including professionals and policymakers."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Annotation 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.

This new edition of the volume is presented on the wave of the success which had its first edition (2003). It is entirely updated to the current situation of the disciplines covered, and expanded with particular regard to the new missions, that have become the main challenge for the armed forces in these first decades of the new millennium, with new insights to technological development toward so-called cyborg warriors, new forms of leadership and changes in soldier's identity and organisational culture. It is compiled of documents coming from various researchers at universities around the world as well as military officers devoted to the sector of study. Covered in this volume is a historical excursus of studies prior to contemporary research, interpretive models and theoretical approaches developed specifically for this topic, 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 the structural change within the military over the years including new duties and functions following the Cold War.

This essay introduces a special issue of Armed Forces & Society examining sociology at military academies around the globe. Articles represent nine countries—Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, the United States. We begin with a brief history of sociology and the military and growth of military sociology as a subfield, followed by the development of military academies in general and sociology at military academies more specifically. The essay concludes with six trends found across the nine nations and ten academies—the stigma of sociology; the cannibalization of sociology courses; co-optation of sociological concepts; charismatic leadership; radical social change; and revitalization.

Military sociology is a new discipline and approach that seeks a better integration of the military world into society, understanding that they are a fundamental part of the origin of society and the safeguard of the structures that are originating as the State begins to grow. It is also necessary to understand that the military world is born from the civilian world as one of the structures of society, called to protect the rest of it.

1. Reflexivity and the sociological study of the military / Helena Carreiras and Ana Caetano -- 2. What is worthy of study about the military? The sociology of militaries-in-use in current-day conflicts / Eyal Ben-Ari -- 3. Reflections on insider-outsider experiences of military research in South Africa / Lindy Heinecken -- 4. Bridging the gap between academic findings and operational military needs / Ljubica Jelusic, Janja Vuga Bersnak and Julija Jelusic Juznic -- 5. Researching military geographies / Rachel Woodward -- 6. Irregular anthropology : researching for the military / Piero C. Leirner -- 7. Interviewing the Brazilian military : reflections on a research experience / Celso Castro -- 8. The effects of military service on women's lives from the narrative perspective / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Orna Sasson-Levy -- 9. Ethnography is a kind of flight : experience-near methods in researching A-4B pilots of the Malvinas-Falklands war / Rosana Guber -- 10. An ethnographic research in the military field : rethinking academic autonomy in the study of the exodus of junior military personnel in Argentina / Sabina Frederic -- 11. Immersion experiences within military organizations / Claude Weber -- 12. The social scientist-soldier in action in the military field / Alicia Paya Y Pastor -- 13. An experience of ethnographic research with military families in the Brazilian Amazon border / Cristina Rodrigues da Silva -- 14. Women researching the military : the researcher-researched relationship through a gender sensitive perspective / Teresa Ammendola, Fatima Farina and Maria Grazia Galantino -- 15. Linked lives in military sociology : family, research, teaching and policy / David R. Segal and Mady Wechsler Segal.