David R. Segal

David R. Segal (2008)

David R. Segal (* 1941 ) is an American military sociologist . He is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park .

Life

Segal studied sociology at Binghamton University (BA 1962) in New York and the University of Chicago (MA 1963, Ph.D. 1967) in Illinois.

From 1966 to 1975 he was an assistant or associate professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In 1972/73 he headed the Center for Research on Social Organization there . From 1973 to 1975 he was head of the Social Processes Technical Area at the US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences . Since 1976 he has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland.

In 1976 he was Chairman of the Working Group on Human Resource Management of the Military Operations Research Society . Since 1986 he has served on the Board of Directors of the Israeli Institute for Military Studies . In 1991/92 he was Chair of the Section on Peace and War of the American Sociological Association and in 1994/95 President of the District of Columbia Sociological Society. From 1994 to 1998 he was President of the Research Committee on Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution of the International Sociological Association and from 1995 to 2003 of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society in Chicago.

Awards

The following is a selection of awards:

• 1989: Outstanding Civilian Service Award , Department of the Army
• 1991: Doctor of Humane Letters (hon.), Towson University
• 2000: Outstanding Civilian Service Award, Department of the Army
• 2007: Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award , Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society
• 2008: Award for Public Understanding of Sociology, American Sociological Association

Fonts (selection)

• with Nancy L. Goldman (Ed.): The Social Psychology of Military Service . Sage Publications, Beverly Hills 1976, ISBN 0-8039-0599-8 .
• with Jerald G. Bachman , John D. Blair : The All-Volunteer Force: A Study of Ideology in the Military . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1977, ISBN 0-472-08095-4 .
• with HW Sinaiko (Ed.): Life in the Rank and File. Enlisted Men and Women in the Armed Forces of the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom . Pergamon, New York 1986, ISBN 0-08-032387-1 .
• Recruiting for Uncle Sam. Citizenship and Military Manpower Policy (= Modern War Series ). University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 1989, ISBN 0-7006-0549-5 .
• with Mady Wechsler Segal : Peacekeepers and their Wives. American Participation in the Multinational Force and Observers Contributions in Military Studies . Greenwood Press, Westport 1993, ISBN 0-313-27484-3 .
• with Charles C. Moskos , John Allen Williams (eds.): The Postmodern Military. Armed Forces after the Cold War . Oxford University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 0-19-513329-3 .
• with James Burk (Ed.): Military Sociology (= SAGE Library of Military and Strategic Studies ). 4 volumes, Sage, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85702-779-5 .

Web links

• David R. Segal at the University of Maryland