Military Sociology

<p>This textbook introduces the reader to the field of military sociology through narrative reviews of selected key studies in the discipline.</p><p>The book provides a <em>guided introduction</em>. 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.</p><p>Topics covered in the book include:</p><ul> <li>What is <em>military sociology</em>? What does it have to offer in understanding armed forces wars and societies?</li> <li>What basic tools are needed to ply <i>sociological</i> or more broadly <i>social science</i> perspectives for studying war and the military?</li> <li>What are the bio-social bases of war? What does the spectrum of such societally organized violence look like?</li> <li>How do societies raise and maintain formal militaries? What are variations in their social composition and in the profiles of civil–military relations?</li> <li>How and why is military organization and war changing so dramatically in the 21st-century? What does the future hold?</li> </ul><p>This book will be of great interest to students of military sociology the armed forces and society peace studies and International Relations.</p>