Military sociology

The military sociology deals macrosociological with the importance of military institutions ( armies , war and air forces ) for all companies or countries (including warlords for state-free rooms), micro-sociological with the military personnel ( officers , NCOs and teams ) in Peace , civil war and War , often with sociological issues.

Insofar as it is with the war sociology not identical, wherein, among other things militarism , Bellizismus and Pazifismus of companies, and also the respective origins of wars , the war-related society as a whole changes are and the social and mental consequences examined by wars; however, it often overlaps with her in the work areas.

Although sociological classics ( Herbert Spencer , Ludwig Gumplowicz , Rudolf Steinmetz ) have already dealt with relevant questions, special investigations were initially carried out in the USA on the occasion of the Korean War (classic: Samuel A. Stouffer and others: The American Soldier. Adjustment During Army Life ) .

In the Federal Republic of Germany, military sociology at universities - with the exception of a few contributions at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich and the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg - is a special sociology that has been seldom represented (for example by Rolf Ziegler in Vienna and Munich). On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Defense , the Potsdam Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , formerly the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr (SOWI), carries out armed forces-related empirical social research and basic research in the field of military sociology. Research in the field of military sociology is also carried out at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. From 2007 to 2016, a master's degree in Military Studies was offered for the first time in the German-speaking area at the Historical Institute of the University of Potsdam ; the successor course has been War and Conflict Studies since 2016/17 .

literature

The following German-language monographs and anthologies serve as an introduction to the topic:

Wilfried von Bredow : Military and Democracy in Germany. An introduction (= foreign policy and international relations study books ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15712-2 .
Sven Bernhard Gareis , Paul Klein (ed.): Handbook of the military and social science . 2nd edition, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-34446-1 .
Franz Kernic : Social Sciences and Military. A critical analysis . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-8244-4473-9 .
Nina Leonhard , Ines-Jacqueline Werkner (ed.): Military sociology. An introduction . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-17594-2 .

Overview display:

Sabine Collmer : Military Sociology . In: Georg Kneer , Markus Schroer (eds.): Handbook of special sociologies . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-15313-1 , pp. 309-324.

English-language literature:

Giuseppe Caforio (Ed.): Handbook of the Sociology of the Military (= Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research ). Springer Science + Business Media, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0387-32456-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ Günter Endruweit , Gisela Trommsdorff, Nicole Burzan (ed.): Dictionary of Sociology . 3rd edition, UVK, Konstanz 2014, ISBN 978-3-8252-8566-1 , p. 315.

[1] Günter Endruweit , Gisela Trommsdorff, Nicole Burzan (ed.): Dictionary of Sociology . 3rd edition, UVK, Konstanz 2014, ISBN 978-3-8252-8566-1 , p. 315.