Sociology of War

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The sociology of war or war sociology or also polemology (Greek polemos - war, dispute) deals with the military as a social power and organization and with war as a social phenomenon . It partially overlaps with military sociology .

In particular, the reasons for the emergence of wars, the social change in war and the consequences of wars on a social, economic, demographic and ideological level, the possibility of abolishing and preventing wars, the social role and social status of those involved, such as Perpetrators , victims , soldiers , civilians and the role of the mass media .

The term sociology of war appears as a book title by Rudolf Steinmetz as early as 1929 . The term polemology was first used in 1945 by the French sociologist Gaston Bouthoul . As a forerunner of the sociology of war, Max Weber's account of the community-creating and meaningful moment of war and the military community can be seen.

Polemology as a scientific department now works in an interdisciplinary manner across the disciplines of sociology , political science , economics and social psychology .

literature

  • Rudolf Steinmetz : Sociology of War , Leipzig, 1929
  • Gaston Bouthoul : Traité de polémologie: Sociologie des guerres. Payot. Paris, 1991. ISBN 222888362X
  • Gaston Bouthoul: Child murder for reasons of state. The war as a settlement in terms of population policy , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1972.
  • Hans Joas / Wolfgang Knöbl: War displacement. A problem in the history of social theory , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29512-0
  • Markus Holzinger: Niklas Luhmann's system theory and wars. In: Journal of Sociology. Vol. 43, No. 6, 2014, pp. 458–475.
  • Markus Holzinger: Martial violence and the dynamics of civil wars in the “peripheries”. About the myth of global modernity , in: Archive for Social History , 57, 2017. ISBN 978-3-8012-4245-9 . Pp. 347-364.
  • Jens Warburg: The military and its subjects. On the sociology of war , Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-852-0
  • Gunnar Heinsohn : Sons and World Power. Terror in the Rise and Fall of Nations , Orell and Füssli, Zurich 2003.
  • Maja Apelt (Hrsg.): Research topic: Military - Military organizations in the field of tension between war, society and soldiers' subjects , Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17124-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Weber: The business ethics of the world religions. Confucianism and Taoism: 1915-1920 . In: Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (Ed.): Max Weber study edition . tape 1 . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1991, p. 216-217 .