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Sep 1, 2021 · Militarism is thus not just about the military, but the normalization and routinization of conflict and war within society, in ways that encroach upon political systems, get taken up in values and moral attachments and extend into what are otherwise usually considered to be civilian domains.
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Militarism as an inflective force or bundle of processes acts upon society in powerful and expansive but uneven and contingent ways. Although militarism carves its way deep into social structures, it is also shaped and reshaped in the dialectical interaction between ingrained structures on the one hand and human agency and contingency on the other.
- Hugh Gusterson, Catherine Besteman
- 2019
Jan 1, 2018 · Abstract. This article argues for a reformulation of the concept of ‘militarism’ as ideology. Although existing sociological approaches have been suspicious of an understanding of militarism as ideology, these criticisms have misrepresented the implications of adopting such a concept.
- James Eastwood
- 2018
define militarism. Our objective is more modest: we shall attempt to present some of the more important aspects of modern mil-itarism. It will be seen as a set of 'diseases', and we shall take a look at the symptoms. We shall not proceed to the more ambitious task of explaining how different forms of militarism emerge (Senghaas, 1977, p. 103),
- Jeff Manza, Northwestern University
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Gianfranco Poggi, Universita di Trento Beth Schneider, University of California, Santa Barbara Susan Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Carol Smart, University of Leeds The Cambridge Dictionary of
Gabriel Abend, Northwestern University Gary L. Albrecht, University of Illinois, Chicago Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University Tomas Almaguer, San Francisco State University Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge Jack Barbalet, University of Leicester James Beckford, University of Warwick Stephen Benard, Cornell University Michael Billig, Loughborough...
I would like to thank Sarah Caro, formerly Senior Commissioning Editor in Social Sciences at Cambridge University Press, for her tireless and cheerful commitment to this Dictionary, and her enthusiasm for the project of sociology as a whole. Her quiet determination to get the job done provided me with an enduring role model. More recently, John Has...
At one level, sociology is easy to define. It is the study of social institutions – the family, religion, sport, community, and so on. We can study institutions at the micro-level by looking at interactions between family members, for exam-ple, or we can examine macro-relations such as the family and kinship system of a society as a whole. Below th...
Sociology is a critical discipline, and its concepts are typically contested. There is no consensus over the meaning of globalization, risk, information, culture, and society. The aim of this Dictionary has therefore been discursive. Its entries are designed to illustrate and debate concepts, showing their diverse origins and contested meanings. So...
prefers Michael Mann’s (1987: 35) definition of militarism as ‘a set of attitudes and social practices which regards war and the preparation for war as a normal and desirable social activity’. Shaw (2013: 19–20) writes: It is sociologically unenlightening to restrict the meaning to ideology: the core idea is the ‘carrying’ of
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Spencer, in his Principles of Sociology, contrasted a "militant" type of society preoccupied with war, with an "industrial society" built on the foundation of individualism.6 Some scholars associated militarism with political absolutism? Of course, the national manifestations of J. Schofield, Militarization and War © Julian Schofield 2007
