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.
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