Handbook of the sociology of the military

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Caforio Giuseppe.
Published: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
Publisher Address: New York, NY
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Handbooks of sociology and social research
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34576-0
Carrier Form: ix, 498 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 9780387345765 (electronic bk.)
0387345760 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: E0
CLC: E0-052
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-485) and index.
Some historical notes / Giuseppe Caforio -- Social research and the military : a cross-national expert survey / Giuseppe Caforio and Marina Nuciari -- Models and explanations for military organization : an updated reconsideration / Marina Nuciari -- The order of violence : norms, rules, and taboos of organized violence and the de-legitimization of the military / Wilfried von Bredow -- The military and the use of force : corporate interests and war / Thomas Lindemann and Michel Louis Martin -- Military mobilization in modern western societies / James Burk -- Civil-military relations / Vladimir O. Rukavishnikov and Michael Pugh -- Democratic control of armed forces : relevance, issues, and research agenda / Hans Born -- The military as a tribe among tribes : postmodern armed forces and civil-military relations? / Bernard Boëne -- Soldiers and governments in postpraetorian Africa : cases in the francophone area / Michel Louis Martin -- Military families and the armed forces : a two-sided affair? / René Moelker and Irene van der Kloet -- Implications for military families of changes in the armed forces of the United States / Mady Wechsler Segal and David R. Segal -- Military culture / Joseph L. Soeters, Donna J. Winslow, and Alise Weibull -- Military officer education / Giuseppe Caforio -- Women in the military : sociological arguments for integration / Marina Nuciari -- Diversity in the armed forces / Donna J. Winslow, Lindy Heinecken, and Joseph L. Soeters -- Unionization of the military : representation of the interests of military personnel / Giuseppe Caforio -- Restructuring of the armed forces / Philippe Manigart -- Conversion of the military : resource-reuse perspective after the end of the Cold War / Ljubica Jelušic -- The decline of the European mass armies / Karl W. Haltiner -- Technology, organization, and power / René Moelker -- Building flexible forces for the 21st century : key challenges for the contemporary armed services / Christopher Dandeker --