Sociology and Military Studies: Classical and Current Foundations

ISBN-13: 9781138739536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 218 str.

Joseph Soeters

Opis

This book examines the connection between the origins of sociology with today's modern military and the challenges they face. The book intends to provide views and insights that will help the military to innovate their organizations and practices.

Spis treści

Prologue Introduction 1. Max Weber: bureaucracy, leadership and military music  2. Emile Durkheim: the military group, culture and its consequences 3. Karl Marx: critical analyses of society and the military 4. Georg Simmel: networks, conflict, secrecy and the stranger 5. Jane Addams: from peace activism to pragmatic peace keeping 6. W.E.B. Dubois: race, diversity and inclusion, in society and the military 7. Erving Goffman: Total Institutions, interaction rituals, street level bureaucrats 8. Michel Foucault: discipline and surveillance in and by the military 9. Morris Janowitz: the professional soldier, civil-military relations and the AVF 10. Norbert Elias: decline of violence, habitus in combat, international relations 11. Cornelis Lammers: strikes and mutinies, occupational and administrative styles, isomorphism and cooperation 12. Arlie Russell Hochschild: emotions in organizations, and in the military 13. Cynthia Enloe: feminist views of the military and its surroundings 14. Bruno Latour: science and technology in society and the military 15. From the classics to the future in military studies: conclusions, themes and prospects