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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.
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Huntington, Samuel P. 1957. The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of CivilMilitary 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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Bulletin 59, No. 4 (December): 1-40.
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: 355376.
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
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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: 183220.
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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Press.
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
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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
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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): 322340.
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