Overview
- The book provides a good overview over the relationship between Social Sciences and the Military
- Offers a sociological interpretation of war, peace and the military
- Offers an overview over the history of the disciplin
Part of the book series: Militär und Sozialwissenschaften/The Military and Social Research (MSR, volume 56)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the various social science approaches to explaining and interpreting war, peace and the military. Its central aim is to trace and reconstruct those basic assumptions constructed and 'thought processes' undertaken by modern social sciences in their research and conceptualization of military violence and the use of force. In addition to such reconstruction, the aim is also to enquire into the preconditions of such thought. This study therefore eschews the development of an explicit 'strategy' (in the sense of a research strategy), but instead is much more concerned with thinking about its subject matter by means of re-thinking and reflecting upon different theoretical approaches and problems. The investigation includes a critical reexamination of the tradition of military-sociological research from the beginning of modern sociology to late-twentieth century theoretical approaches regarding the security-focused and/or war-driven aspects ofmodern society.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Franz Kernic is an Austrian sociologist and political scientist. Before retiring in 2022, he taught leadership at ETH Zurich and served as head of leadership and communication studies at the Swiss Military Academy. Before moving to Switzerland in 2013, he was Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Defence University and a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich (Germany) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria). He was also a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University in Santiago de Chile, University of Minnesota (USA) and Carleton University (Canada).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: War, Peace and the Military
Book Subtitle: Sociological Perspectives
Authors: Franz Kernic
Series Title: Militär und Sozialwissenschaften/The Military and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40521-2
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-658-40520-5Published: 18 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-40523-6Published: 19 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-40521-2Published: 17 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-0817
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0825
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 166
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Political Sociology, History of Military