Core Reading List for Specialty Examination in Military Sociology June 2013

Students taking comps should be familiar with the recent scholarship from members of the department posted on the Military Sociology bulletin board on the 4th floor in addition to the below readings.

I. General

Abbott, Andrew. 2002. “The Army and the Theory of Professions.” Pp. 523-536 in Don M. Snider, Gale L. Watkins, and Lloyd J. Matthews, eds., The Future of the Army Profession. New York: McGraw Hill.

Boëne, Bernard. 1990. “How ‘Unique’ Should the Military Be? A Review of Representative Literature.” European Journal of Sociology 31: 3-59.

Booth, Bradford, Meyer Kestnbaum, and David R. Segal. 2001. “Are Post-Cold War Militaries Postmodern?” Armed Forces and Society 27: 319-342.

Burk, James, ed. 1994. The Military in New Times. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Burk, James. 2002. “Expertise, Jurisdiction, and Legitimacy of the Military Profession.” Pp. 19-38 in Don M. Snider, Gale L. Watkins, and Lloyd J. Matthews, eds., The Future of the Army Profession. New York: McGraw Hill.

Burris, Val. 2008. “Vietnam to Iraq: Continuity and Change in Between-Group Differences in Support for Military Action.” Social Problems 55: 443-479.

Davis, James A. 2001. “Attitudes and Opinions among Senior Military Officers and a U.S. Cross-Section: 1998-1999. Pp. 101-128 in Soldiers and Civilians, edited by Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Eitelberg, Mark J. and Stephen L. Mehay, eds. 1994. Marching Toward the 21st Century: Military Manpower and Recruiting. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.

Griffith, James. 2009. “Being a Reserve Soldier: A Matter of Social Identity.” Armed Forces and Society 36: 38-64.

Holsti, Ole R. 2001. “Of Chasms and Convergences: Attitudes and Beliefs of Civilians and Military Elites at the Start of the New Millennium. Pp. 15-99 in Soldiers and Civilians, edited by Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn. Cambridge: MIT Press.

1 Huntington, Samuel P. 1957. The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil- Military Relations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Janowitz, Morris. 1960. The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait. New York: The Free Press.

Kestnbaum, Meyer. 2000. “Citizenship and Compulsory Military Service: The Revolutionary Origins of Conscription in the United States.” Armed Forces & Society 27: 7-36.

Kim, Hyung Min, Deokro Lee, and Richard C. Feiock. 2012. “Network Power and Militarized Conflicts.” Armed Forces and Society 38: 291-317.

King, Anthony. 2006. “The Word of Command: Communication and Cohesion in the Military.” Armed Forces and Society 32: 493-512

Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. New York: Oxford University Press.

Moskos, Charles C. 1977. Peace Soldiers: The Sociology of a United Nations Military Force. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Moskos, Charles C. 1970. The American Enlisted Man. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Moskos, Charles C., John Allen Williams, and David R. Segal, ed. 2000. The Postmodern Military: Armed Forces after the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press.

Moskos, Charles C. and Frank R. Wood, eds. 1989. The Military: More Than Just a Job? Washington: Pergamon-Brassey’s.

Segal, David R. 1989. Recruiting for Uncle Sam: Citizenship and Military Manpower Policy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

Segal, David R. 1986. “Measuring the Institutional/Occupational Change Thesis.” Armed Forces and Society 12: 351-376.

Segal, David R., Peter Freedman-Doan, Jerald G. Bachman, and Patrick M. O’Malley. 2001. “Attitudes of Entry-Level Personnel.” Pp. 163-212 in Soldiers and Civilians, edited by Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Segal, David R. and Mady Wechsler Segal. 1993. Peacekeepers and Their Wives: American Participation in the Multinational Force of Observers. Westport: Greenwood Press.

Segal, David R. and Mady Wechsler Segal. 1993. “Military Sociology.” From International Military and Defense Encyclopedia, edited by Trevor N. Dupuy. Washington: Brassey’s.

David R. Segal and Mady W. Segal. 2004. “America’s Military Population.” Population

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Segal, David R. and H. Wallace Sinaiko, eds. 1986. Life in the Rank and File. Washington: Brassey’s.

Seibold, Guy L. 2007. “The Essence of Military Group Cohesion.” Armed Forces and Society 33: 286-295.

Snider and Watkins. 2002. “Introduction.” Pp. 3-18 in Don M. Snider, Gale L. Watkins, and Lloyd J. Matthews, eds., The Future of the Army Profession. New York: McGraw Hill.

Stanley, Jay, ed. Essays on the Garrison State. Transaction.

Stouffer, Samuel A., Edward A. Suchman, Leland C. DeVinney, Shirley A. Star, and Robin M. Williams, Jr. 1949. The American Soldier: Adjustment during Army Life (Volume I). Princeton: NJ: Princeton University Press.

Stouffer, Samuel A., Arthur A. Lumsdaine, Marion Harper Lumsdaine, Robin M. Williams, Jr., M. Brewster Smith, Irving L. Janis, Shirley A. Star, and Leonard S. Cottrell. 1949. The American Soldier: Combat and its Aftermath (Volume II). Princeton: NJ: Princeton University Press. {see also Sociology of Combat Section}

Thornborrow, Thomas, and Andrew D. Brown. 2009. “’Being Regimented’: Aspiration, Discipline, and Identity Work in the British Parachute Regiment.” Organization Studies 30: 355- 376.

Wilmoth, Janet M., and Andrew S. London, eds. Life Course Perspectives on Military Service. Routledge, 2013.

II. Social Representation in the Military: Race, Socio-Economic Status, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

[Note: In this and subsequent sections, there are relevant chapters in the books listed under “General” above.]

Asch, Beth J., et al. 2009. Military enlistment of Hispanic youth: Obstacles and opportunities. Rand Corporation.

Basham, Victoria. 2009. “Effecting Discrimination: Operational Effectiveness and Harassment in the British Armed Forces.” Armed Forces and Society 35: 728-744.

Bogart, Leo, ed. 1969 [1951]. Social Research and the Desegregation of the U.S. Army. Chicago: Markham.

Burk, James. 1995. "Citizenship Status and Military Service: The Quest for Inclusion by

3 Minorities and Conscientious Objectors." Armed Forces & Society 21: 503-529.

Burk, James and Evelyn Espinoza. 2012. “Race Relations Within the US Military.” Annual Review of Sociology 38: 401-422.

Campbell, D’Ann. 1984. Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era. Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press.

Dunivin, Karen O. 1994. “Military Culture: Change and Continuity.” Armed Forces and Society, 20: 531-547.

Glen H. Elder, Jr., Lin Wang, Naomi J. Spence, Daniel E. Adkins, and Tyson H. Brown. 2010. “Pathways to the All-Volunteer Military.” Social Science Quarterly 91(2): 455–475.

Goldman, Nancy Loring, ed. 1982. Female Soldiers - Combatants or Non-combatants: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.

Lundquist, Jennifer Hickes. 2008. "Ethnic and Gender Satisfaction in the Military: The Effect of a Meritocratic Institution. American Sociological Review 73(3): 477-496.

Journal of Homosexuality. 2013 Volume 60, Issue 2-3. Entire special issue on DADT repeal.

Katzenstein, Mary Fainsod , and Judith Reppy, eds. 1999. Beyond Zero Tolerance: Discrimination in Military Culture. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Landis, Dan, Mickey R. Dansby, and Michael Hoyle. 1997. “The Effects of Race on Procedural Justice: The Case of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.” Armed Forces and Society 24: 183- 220.

Manning, Lory. 2008. Women in the military: Where they stand. 6th ed. Washington: Women's Research and Education Institute.

Moore, Brenda L. 1996. To Serve My Country To Serve My Race. New York: New York University Press.

Moore, Brenda L. 2003. Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military During World War II. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Moradi, Bonnie. 2009. “Sexual Orientation Disclosure, Concealment, Harassment, and Military Cohesion: Perceptions of LGBT Military Veterans.” Military Psychology 1:513–533.

Moskos, Charles C. and John Sibley Butler. 1996. All That We Can Be. New York: Basic Books.

Scott, Wilbur J. and Sandra Carson Stanley, eds. 1994. Gays and Lesbians in the Military: Issues, Concerns, and Contrasts. New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

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Segal, David R. and Meyer Kestnbaum. 2002. “Professional Closure in the Military Labor Market: A Critique of Pure Cohesion.” Pp. 441-458 in The Future of the Army Profession, edited by Don M. Snider and Gayle L. Watkins. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Segal, Mady Wechsler. 1995. "Women's Military Roles Cross-Nationally: Past, Present, and Future." Gender & Society 9: 757-775.

Sandhoff, Michelle and Mady W. Segal. 2013. "Women in the U.S. Military." in David M. Kennedy, ed., The Modern American Military. Oxford University Press, Pp. 273-294.

Mady W. Segal and Chris Bourg. 2002. “Professional Leadership and Diversity in the Army.” Pp. 505-520 in Don M. Snider, Gale L. Watkins, and Lloyd J. Matthews, eds., The Future of the Army Profession. New York: McGraw Hill.

III. Sociology of War

A. Societal and Historical Contexts

Andreski, Stanislav. 1968. Military Organization and Society. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Aron, Raymond. 1968 [1957]. On War, translated by Terence Kilmartin. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. Lanham, MD: University Press Of America.

Aron, Raymond. 1965 [1954]. Century of Total War. Boston: Beacon Press. OR Aron, Raymond 1980 [1957]. War and Industrial Society. Translated by Mary Bottomer. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.

Bartov, Omer. 1996. Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Represenation. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Best, Geoffrey. 1994. War and Law Since 1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Clausewitz, Carl Von. 1976 [1831]. "Book One: On the Nature of War." Pp. 75-123 in On War, edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Clausewitz, Carl Von. 1976 [1831]. "Book Eight: War Plans." Pp. 577-640 in On War, edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Förster, Stig, and Jörg Nagler, eds. On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Howard, Michael. 1976. War in European History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University

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Keegan, John. 1976. The Face of Battle. Harmondsworth: Peguin Books.

Kestnbaum, Meyer. 2002. “Citizen-Soldiers, National Service and the Mass Army: The Birth of Conscription in Revolutionary Europe and North America.” Comparative Social Research 20: 117-144.

Kestnbaum, Meyer. 2004. “Mars Revealed: The Entry of Ordinary People into War among States.” In Remaking Modernity: Politics, Processes and History in Sociology, edited by Julia P. Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Kestnbaum. 2009. “The Sociology of War and the Military.” Annual Review of Sociology 35:235-254.

Marwick, Arthur. 1974. War and Social Change in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States. London: Macmillan.

Malešević, Siniša. 2010.The Sociology of War and Violence. Cambridge University Press.

Mosse, George L. 1990. Fallen soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. 1988. “Social Revolutions and Mass Military Mobilization.” World Politics XL(2):147-168.

B. The Sociology of Combat

Bartov, Omer. 1992. "The Conduct of War: Soldiers and the Barbarization of Warfare." Journal of Modern History 64, wuppl Dec.: S32-S45.

Collins, Randall. 1989. "Sociological Theory, Disaster Research, and War." Pp. 365-385 in Social Structure and Disaster, edited by Gary A. Kreps. Newark: University of Delaware Press

Devilbliss, M. C. 1990. “Women in Combat: A Quick Summary of the Arguments on Both Sides.” Minerva VIII(1): 29-31.

Dienstfrey, Stephen, J. 1988. “Women Veterans’ Exposure to Combat.” Armed Forces and Society 14(4):549-558.

Faris, John H. 1977. “An Alternative Perspective to Savage and Gabriel.” Armed Forces and Society 3(3):457-462.

Homans, George, C. 1946. “The Small Warship.” American Sociological Review 11(3):294-300.

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Little, Roger W. 1969. “Buddy Relations and Combat Performance.” In The New Military, edited by Morris Janowitz. New York: W.W. Norton.

Marshall, S. L. A. 1950. “Why Men Fight.” Ch. 10 in Men Against Fire edited by S. L. A. Marshall. New York: Morrow.

Savage, Paul L. and Richard A. Gabriel. 1976. “Cohesion and Disintegration in the American Army.” Armed Forces and Society. 2: 340-76.

Shils, Edward A. and Morris Janowitz. 1948. “Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmacht in World War II.” Public Opinion Quarterly. Summer: 280-315.

Stouffer, Samuel A., Arthur A. Lumsdaine, Marion Harper Lumsdaine, Robin M. Williams, Jr., M. Brewster Smith, Irving L. Janis, Shirley A. Star, and Leonard S. Cottrell. 1949. The American Soldier: Combat and its Aftermath (Volume II). Princeton: NJ: Princeton University Press.

Sweeney, Patrick J. 2010. “Do Soldiers Reevaluate Trust in Their Leaders Prior to Combat Operations?” Military Psychology 22: 70-88.

IV. The Military and Other Social Institutions

A. Military Families

Bradford H. Booth, Mady Wechsler Segal, and D. Bruce Bell with James A. Martin, Morten G. Ender, and John Nelson. 2007. What We Know About Army Families: 2007 Update. Fairfax, VA: ICF International. Prepared for U.S. Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command.

Bowen, Gary L., and Dennis K. Orthner, eds. 1989. The Organization Family: Work and Family Linkages in the U.S. Military. New York: Praeger.

Faulk, Kathryn E., Christian T. Gloria, Jessica Duncan Cance, and Mary A. Steinhardt. 2012. “Depressive Symptoms among US Military Spouses During Deployment: The Protective Effect of Positive Emotions.” Armed Forces and Society 38: 373-390.

Military Family Clearinghouse. 1996. Military Family Demographics: Profile of the Military Family. [See also updated demographic information (such as on the website of the Military Family Resource Center).]

Segal, Mady Wechsler. 1986. "The military and the family as greedy institutions." Armed Forces & Society 13(1): 9-38.

Tunac De Pedro, Kris M., Ron Avi Astor, Rami Benbehishty, Jose Estrada, Gabrielle R. Dejoie

7 Smith, and Monica Christina Esqueda. 2011. “The Children of Military Service Members: Challenges, Supports, and Future Educational Research.” Review of Educational Research 81: 566-618,

B. Military service and effects on post-military life.

Cooney, Richard T., et al. "Racial differences in the impact of military service on the socioeconomic status of women veterans." Armed Forces & Society 30.1 (2003): 53-85.

Elder, Glen H. "Military times and turning points in men's lives." Developmental Psychology 22.2 (1986): 233.

Kleykamp, Meredith. "A great place to start? The effect of prior military service on hiring." Armed Forces & Society 35.2 (2009): 266-285.

MacLean, Alair, and Glen H. Elder Jr. "Military service in the life course." Annual Review of Sociology 33.1 (2007): 175.

MacLean, Alair. 2010. “The Things They Carry: Combat, Disability and Unemployment among US Men.” American Sociological Review 75(4): 563–585.

National Research Council. Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Preliminary Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010. [Phase 1 report]

National Research Council. Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2013. [Phase 2 report]

Sampson, Robert J., and John H. Laub. "Socioeconomic achievement in the life course of disadvantaged men: Military service as a turning point, circa 1940-1965." American Sociological Review (1996): 347-367.

Scott, Wilbur J. The politics of readjustment: Vietnam veterans since the war. Aldine, 1993.

Settersten, Richard A. "When Nations Call How Wartime Military Service Matters for the Life Course and Aging." Research on Aging 28.1 (2006): 12-36.

Tanielian, Terri L., and Lisa H. Jaycox, eds. Invisible wounds of war: Psychological and cognitive injuries, their consequences, and services to assist recovery. Vol. 720. Rand Corporation, 2008.

C. Military and Higher Education

8 Bound, John, and Sarah Turner. "Going to war and going to college: Did World War II and the GI Bill increase educational attainment for returning veterans?." Journal of Labor Economics 20.4 (2002): 784-815.

Card, David, and Thomas Lemieux. "Going to college to avoid the draft: The unintended legacy of the Vietnam War." The American Economic Review 91.2 (2001): 97-102.

Donald A. Downs and Ilia Murtazashvili, 2012. Arms and the University. Cambridge University Press.

MacLean, Alair. "Lessons from the Cold War: Military service and college education." Sociology of Education 78.3 (2005): 250-266.

Mettler, Suzanne. Soldiers to citizens: The GI Bill and the making of the greatest generation. Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.

Turner, Sarah, and John Bound. "Closing the gap or widening the divide: The effects of the GI Bill and World War II on the educational outcomes of black Americans." The Journal of Economic History 63.01 (2003): 145-177.

D. Military contractors

Kelty, Ryan. "The US Navy's Maiden Voyage Effects of Integrating Sailors and Civilian Mariners on Deployment." Armed Forces & Society 34.4 (2008): 536-564.

Kelty, Ryan, and Alex Bierman. "Ambivalence on the Front Lines: Perceptions of Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan." Armed Forces & Society (2012).

McCoy, Katherine E. "Beyond Civil—Military Relations: Reflections on Civilian Control of a Private, Multinational Workforce." Armed Forces & Society 36.4 (2010): 671-694.

McCoy, Katherine E. "Organizational Frames for Professional Claims: Private Military Corporations and the Rise of the Military Paraprofessional." Social Problems 59.3 (2012): 322- 340.

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