Military sociology

South Asia

Middle East

Europe

North America

Military sociology is a subfield within sociology. It corresponds closely to C. Wright Mills's summons to connect a individual world to broader social structures. Military sociology aims toward the systematic study of the military as a social group rather than as a military organization. This highly specialized sub-discipline examines issues related to usefulness personnel as a distinct office with coerced collective action based on divided up interests linked to survival in vocation as well as combat, with purposes & values that are more defined and narrow than within civil society. Military sociology also concerns civil-military relations and interactions between other groups or governmental agencies.

Theory and methodology

Military sociology reflects the diversity of methods employed by sociology itself. These increase large-scale data analysis, participant observation, social network analysis, survey research, comparative history, issue studies etc. The methods of military sociology also include philosophical perspectives and arguments.