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Chapter Gives a Background of the Journal and Information About Each Editor A Description of the Articles of the Past Five Years of Armed Forces & Society By Nathan Sexton An Applied Research Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Public Administration Texas State University Fall 2003 Political Science 5397 Dr. Patricia Shields Faculty Approval __________________________ __________________________ 1 Abstract The purpose of this Applied Research Project is to describe the substantive content of recent articles in Armed Forces & Society. This paper uses the framework of Guy L. Siebold (2001) to analyze the content of 117 Armed Forces & Society articles from the past five years. The settings chapter gives a background of the journal and information about each editor. Guy L. Siebold (2001 pp. 143) identifies four areas of military sociology that require attention. The four areas include (1) the military as a profession of arms, (2) the military as an institution or organization, (3) civil-military relations, and (4) military relations with other governmental agencies and militaries (Siebold 2001 pp140). The key facets of military sociology as set by Siebold are used to classify the content in the journal. The results found that the most discussed topics in the journal are historical development; education or training; recruitment or promotion; social issues or innovation, demographics; goals, ways of operating or the I/O debate, and the degree of conflict, harmony, or cooperation as related to civil-military relations. 2 Table of Contents Chapter One ...................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction....................................................................................................................... 5 Purpose............................................................................................................................ 5 Summary of chapters ...................................................................................................... 6 Chapter Two...................................................................................................................... 8 Setting ................................................................................................................................8 Introduction..................................................................................................................... 8 Editor Tenures................................................................................................................. 9 Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter Three................................................................................................................. 13 Literature Review ........................................................................................................... 13 The Military as a Profession of Arms........................................................................... 15 Historical Development of Profession...................................................................... 16 Prestige, Power or Characteristics of Professionalism ............................................. 18 Responsibility or Expertise....................................................................................... 19 Socialization.............................................................................................................. 20 Education or Training ............................................................................................... 22 Recruitment or Promotion......................................................................................... 24 Control or Accountability ......................................................................................... 28 The Military as an Institution or Organization ............................................................. 31 Social Issues or Innovation ....................................................................................... 32 Demographics ........................................................................................................... 33 Stratification, Roles, or Management ....................................................................... 39 Values or Ethics ........................................................................................................ 42 Goals, Ways of Operating or the I/O Debate............................................................ 44 Civil-Military Relations................................................................................................ 48 Degree of Conflict, Harmony, or Cooperation ......................................................... 51 Mechanisms of Control............................................................................................. 53 Military-to-External Agents.......................................................................................... 54 Problems with Military to Military Relations........................................................... 55 Cohesion or Joint Working Culture .......................................................................... 57 Table 2.1 Conceptual Framework tied to the literature ............................................... 59 Chapter Four................................................................................................................... 60 Methodology.................................................................................................................... 60 Introduction................................................................................................................... 60 Content Analysis........................................................................................................... 60 Strengths of Content Analysis ................................................................................... 61 Weaknesses of Content Analysis ............................................................................... 62 Table 4.1 ................................................................................................................... 63 Population ..................................................................................................................... 63 Table 4.2 Listing of the Articles ............................................................................... 64 3 Statistics ........................................................................................................................ 67 Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 67 Chapter Five.................................................................................................................... 69 Results.............................................................................................................................. 69 Introduction................................................................................................................... 69 The military as a profession of arms............................................................................. 69 Table 5.1 The military as a profession of arms......................................................... 70 Institutional or organizational....................................................................................... 70 Table 5.2 Institutional or organizational................................................................... 71 Civil-military relations.................................................................................................. 71 Table 5.3 Civil-military relations.............................................................................. 72 External agent relations................................................................................................. 73 Table 5.4 External agent relations ............................................................................ 73 Outside the topic of military sociology.......................................................................... 73 Table 5.5 Outside military sociology........................................................................ 74 American versus international ...................................................................................... 74 Table 5.6 American versus international articles..................................................... 74 Summary.......................................................................................................................... 74 Chapter Six...................................................................................................................... 75 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 75 Introduction................................................................................................................... 75 Summary....................................................................................................................... 75 Table 6.1 Summary Table......................................................................................... 76 Institutional or organizational....................................................................................... 76 Civil-military relations ..................................................................................................
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