Books On Military Sociology
The Warrior Ethos: Military Culture and the War on Terror by Christop Coker
Following
the Flag: Marriage and the Modern Military by Betty L. Alt (Hardcover Book)
Your Military Family Network: Your Connection to Military Friendly Businesses
Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight : Gender, Folklore, Changing Military Culture Carol Burke
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New Directions In Military Sociology Book by Eric Ouellet (Editor)
The Sociology of the Military (International Library of Critical Writings in Sociology) Book by Giuseppe Caforio (Editor)
Killing Ground : The Civil War and the Changing American Landscape Book by John Huddleston
The British Army in the West Indies: Society and the Military in the Revolutionary Age Book by Roger Norman Buckley
Obeying Orders: Atrocity, Military Discipline & the Law of War Book by Mark Osiel, Mark J. Osiel
The
Military and Militarism in Israeli Society (S U N Y Series in Israeli Studies)
Book by Edna Lomsky-Feder (Editor), Eyal Ben-Ari (Editor)
The Military and Conflict Between Cultures: Soldiers at the Interface (Texas a & M University Military History Series) Book by James C. Bradford (Editor)
Breaking Ranks: Social Change in Military Communities Book by Christopher Jessup
A Question of Loyalty: Military Manpower Policy in Multiethnic States (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) Book by Alon Peled
Army,
Industry and Labour in Germany, 1914-1918 (Legacy of the Great War)
Book by Gerald Feldman
War and Society in 20th Century France Book by Michael Scriven (Editor), Peter Wagstaff (Editor)
The Martial Metropolis : U.S. Cities in War and Peace Book by Roger W. Lotchin
Beyond Zero Tolerance Book by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
Sex Among Allies Book by Katharine H. S. Moon
Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany Book by John P. Hawkins
War and Society in Europe 1870-1970 (War and European Society) Book by Brian Bond
Military
System and Social Life in Old Regime Prussia, 1713-1807: The Beginnings of the Social
Militarization of Prusso-German Society (Studies in German Histories)
Book by Otto Busch, John G. Gagliardo (Translator)
World Military Leaders Book by Mostafa Rejai, Kay Phillips
The Tainted War : Culture and Identity in Vietnam War Narratives (Contributions in Military Studies) Book by Lloyd B. Lewis
The
Adaptive Military: Armed Forces in a Turbulent World, Second Edition
Book by James Burk (Editor)
Developing Team Cohesion: A Quasi-Field Experiment
Reviews:
Camp
All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight : Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military
Culture Book by Carol Burke
From Publishers Weekly
Burke vividly describes how basic training breaks down new recruits’ former
identities and instills military discipline. Shaving recruits’ heads, issuing new
clothing, forbidding them any of the freedoms of civilian life and depriving them of sleep
are just parts of the process. Burke says, by comparing them negatively to homosexuals and
women. According to the author, military hazing rituals have led to, at best, the
marginalization of female recruits and, at worst, to incidents of sexual aggression
towards women, as in Tailhook scandal - and now, some will argue, toward prisoners. Burke
focuses on what she sees as weaknesses of military culture.
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New
Directions In Military Sociology Book by Eric Ouellet (Editor)
Reviewer: John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV)
The military as we know it today has been around since at least the days of Alexander and
the Greek phalanx. Yet at the same time the military is in a constant state of change.
Since the end of conscription, the end of the Cold War, and the dissolution of the Soviet
Union the militaries of the world have been in a state of rapid change.
This book is on the military as a social organization. This encompasses both the
relationship between the military and society, and the inside view of the social structure
of the military institution itself. The book is a series of articles written by
specialists in military sociology from around the world.
The
Sociology of the Military (International Library of Critical Writings in Sociology,
11) Book by Giuseppe Caforio (Editor) - P.K. Gautam, U.S.I. Journal
'This is one good compendium of military sociology. This book would be very useful to
those interested in a psychological and militaristic analysis of the vast subject of
military sociology.
Killing Ground : The Civil War and the Changing American Landscape (Creating the North American Landscape) Book by John Huddleston
Obeying
Orders: Atrocity, Military Discipline & the Law of War Book by Mark Osiel, Mark J.
Osiel
Reviewer: Frank (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)
In this book, Mr. Osiel contends that the military should be more proactive in prosecuting
soldiers for violations of the law of warfare. To his credit, the author recognizes the
complexities of the modern battlefield and the "real-world" impact of imposing
new or thicker layers of control within the chaos that is war. Professional soldiers will
find some of his example cases distracting, as they are clear violations of the law
without imposing his higher standard to the situation.
The
Military and Conflict Between Cultures: Soldiers at the Interface (Texas a & M
University Military History Series) Book by James C. Bradford (Editor)
Recommended to any serious military historian.
Breaking Ranks: Social Change in Military Communities Book by Christopher Jessup
Handbook
of the Sociology of the Military (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)
Book by Giuseppe Caforio (Editor)
Extensive collection of what has been written about the sociology of the military. This
book is the delves into the sociological approach to the study of the military. This book
is ideal for scholars of the subject as well as those coming to the sociology of the
military for the first time. A thorough, overview of military sociology from the time it
emerges as a specific subdiscipline in the 1940s.
A
Question of Loyalty: Military Manpower Policy in Multiethnic States (Cornell Studies in
Security Affairs) Book by Alon Peled
States that use military conscription and whose ethnic minorities have relatives in
hostile countries face a "Trojan horse" dilemma: the state demands military
service but mistrusts the loyalty of subjugated community members.
Army,
Industry and Labour in Germany, 1914-1918 (Legacy of the Great War)
Book by Gerald Feldman
This innovative study by one of the leading specialists in the field examines the social
and economic role of the German army in the nation's internal affairs during World War I.
Gerald Feldman is a Professor of History, at the University of California, Berkeley.
War
and Society in 20th Century France Book by Michael Scriven (Editor), Peter Wagstaff
(Editor)
Presents a vivid picture of the various ways in which the French people experienced war:
resistance and collaboration, the colonial wars, the military and the state, the
military-industrial complex, war propaganda, and literary and cultural representations of
war.
The
Martial Metropolis : U.S. Cities in War and Peace Book by Roger W. Lotchin
Covers the period between the end of World War I and the escalation of the Vietnam
conflict, during which both U.S. cities and the U.S. military came of age. The cities
chosen have had longstanding and broad partnerships with the military.
Beyond
Zero Tolerance Book by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
The U.S. military has an exemplary set of rules governing both race relations and gender
discrimination, and yet it has experienced repeated sex scandals and long-lingering racial
tensions. This book takes on that paradox and critically examines the reasons underlying
it.
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein is professor of government at Cornell University. Judith Reppy is
professor of science and technology studies in the Peace Studies Program at Cornell
University.
Sex
Among Allies Book by Katharine H. S. Moon
The U.S.Korea Review
Drawing on a vast array of data archival materials, interviews with officials, social
workers, and the candid revelations of sex industry workers. Moon explores the way in
which the bodies of Korean prostitutes where, when, and how they worked and lived were
used by the US and the Korean governments in their security agreements. . . .marginalized
and made invisible in militarily dependent societies.
Army
of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of
Cold War Germany Book by John P. Hawkins
This ethnography describes the intense contradictions that exist between the cultural
values of American life and the cultural values needed to survive in combat, as
represented through the experiences of forward-deployed U.S. Army units in Germany during
the height of the Cold War.
War
and Society in Europe 1870-1970 (War and European Society) Book by Brian Bond
This survey by a leading military historian shows how war has exerted an enormous
influence on European society since 1870, and how in turn civilian society has played a
major role in transforming the nature of armed conflict.
Military
System and Social Life in Old Regime Prussia, 1713-1807: The Beginnings of the Social
Militarization of Prusso-German Society (Studies in German Histories)
Book by Otto Busch, John G. Gagliardo (Translator)
World
Military Leaders Book by Mostafa Rejai, Kay Phillips
The authors develop an interactional theory of military leaders, stressing the interplay
between sociodemographic variables, psychological dynamics, and situational factors. They
examine age and birthplace, socioeconomic status, family life, ethnicity and religion,
education and occupation, activities and experiences, and ideologies and attitudes. They
find military leaders to be a remarkably coherent and homogeneous group of men propelled
toward the military by a combination of nationalism, imperialism, relative deprivation,
love deprivation, marginality, and vanity.
The
Tainted War : Culture and Identity in Vietnam War Narratives (Contributions in
Military Studies) Book by Lloyd B. Lewis
According to Lewis, American males had accepted ideas, based on their fathers' W.W. II
experiences, that wars pit virtue against evil in clearly defined battlefield situations
with individual actions modeled on John Waynes's movie heroics. Vietnam War was unlike any
war fought by this generation's fathers. Lewis's perceptive study in the sociology of
knowledge offers many original insights into the Vietnam War.
The
Adaptive Military: Armed Forces in a Turbulent World, Second Edition
Book by James Burk (Editor)
Burk does an above average job identifying the new military security policies and
practices that are becoming necessary in the post-Cold War military. This book is a
synthesis of several articles, each written by distinguished military sociologist and
public policy analyists. I recommend this book to the avid reader who wants to explore
public policy from a sociological approach.
Developing
Team Cohesion: A Quasi-Field Experiment - The abstract provided by the Pentagon
follows: Within military organizations, research findings have lent support to the
positive influence cohesion has on group performance in combat and non- combat areas,
Beyond performance, research findings show that cohesion influences the job satisfaction,
and health of military members, particularly under highly stressful conditions, such as
those encountered in combat or extended deployments.