Morten G. Ender

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A social history of African Americans in the U.S. military.

This chapter makes the military case for diversity, inclusion, and equity in the U.S. military and uses the construction engineering metaphor of tying rebar steel in buildings.

We lay out a U.S. Army case for diversity and inclusion highlighting the U.S. Army definition of diversity, presenting a research literature on diversity in work-related organizations, forging building and sustaining an effectively diverse army, and indexing a go-to, must-have list of 81 policies, acts, and milestones from the Massachusetts Militia...

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This article examines a forward-deployed US Army unit in Eastern Europe. Drawing from military sociology, the theoretical framework used to study this unit focused primarily on factors of boredom and the fragmentation model of organizational culture. The methodological approach was mixed, including interviews and participant and non-participant obs...

A modified Monopoly game simulation to teach about social inequality in the military. Information available at: https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-and-Learning-the-West-Point-Way-Educating-the-Next-Generation/Ender-Kimball-Sondheimer-Bruhl/p/book/9780367685867

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Course Guide for senior-level undergraduate course. Details at: https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-and-Learning-the-West-Point-Way-Educating-the-Next-Generation/Ender-Kimball-Sondheimer-Bruhl/p/book/9780367685867

Most college undergraduates are Millennials or Generation Z members. These generations are ferocious social media consumers across a range of platforms. Research exists on the U.S. military’s adoption of social media, but less is known about the everyday implications of social media use and how service members might differ in their uses from their...

This chapter consolidates just over 100 books and journal articles at the intersection of the military and popular culture in the social science and humanities studies literature. All studies are English language publications and focus on popular culture and the military in the United States and the United Kingdom. The studies coalesce around 18 di...

Although many studies have compared military vs. civilian samples on a wide variety of characteristics, few have examined these differences within the context of those who commit a portion of their life to the military. In this study, we explored how West Point cadets with (“military brat cadet”) or without (“non-brat cadet”) a family military back...

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Armed Forces & Society (AF&S) was founded in 1974 with the overall intention of creating an international arena for interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the military institution and the intersection of armed forces and their society. The present study is both a follow-up and an update of Morten Enders’s article “Authorship and Affiliation i...

In 2016, the United States military lifted the ban on transgender members serving and are expected to begin accessions of transgender service members in 2017. A paucity of research exists on transgender matters in the military, especially on attitudes towards cisgender service members. This study deploys a qualitative methodology, comprised of 21 f...

The repeal of combat restrictions by gender raises the importance of understanding factors related to the acceptance of women serving in the full range of military jobs. Previous research shows military affiliated cadets, especially males, are substantially less approving of women serving in military jobs, especially those involving exposure to dir...

African-Americans in the U.S. military encompass at least two distinct identity groups: A racial status associated with lower support for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a military status which tends to be more 'hawkish' in perspective. This study examines the intersection of these two status characteristics utilizing survey data of American...

We explore American military academy, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), and civilian undergraduate attitudes toward transgender people in general, in the workplace, and in the military. Earlier this decade, the US military experienced both the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy and the exclusion of women from combat, yet transgender...

Collective self-esteem refers to individuals’ evaluations of their social identities, their group affiliations. Private collective self-esteem includes assessments of how individuals privately evaluate their social group or groups while public collective self-esteem assesses how individuals believe others evaluate their social group or groups. This...

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This chapter focuses on specific uses of the military: fighting war and terrorism. Great differences are uncovered regarding military-affiliates’ attitudes toward the war in Iraq but less for Afghanistan. The findings point to similarities and differences that are case specific relative to the specific war or type of war. Millennial youth today are...

This chapter puts forth how the Millennial generation views the current armed services, future service, and national service in the United States. Explored specifically are the Millennials’ views of serving for and in the military, their own willingness to serve, and the factors associated with supporting military service and/or national service ac...

How diverse is the military? Are civilians and cadets open to a heterogeneous armed forces? This chapter discusses Millennial attitudes toward diverse groups in the military, specifically gender and sexual orientation. Civilian Millennials may be more idealistic while their military peers respond from a practice perspective. There is some support f...

The military for what? Millennials respond to what they think the US armed forces should be doing both in the US (such as domestic disaster relief) and around the world (such as peacekeeping, war, and nation building). Current military-affiliated and civilian Millennials are compared to those of the past. Both civilians and military affiliates toda...

The conclusion answers two main questions: Can the military survive if civilians do not support it both in attitude and deeds? Has a civilian-military fusion turned up in the years since 9/11? We discuss the implications of the findings for future research. Research informs us about Millenial service participation in American society. Who shoulders...

Who are the Millennials? This chapter provides a review of the literature on this cohort born in the late 1970s up through 2000. Their characteristics are described and the significant events that have shaped the Millennial generation are highlighted with an eye toward connections to national defense. Second, the chapter provides a description of t...

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The U.S. military's ban on open homosexuality has become an increasingly salient issue since its implementation in 1993 and its repeal in 2011. The military is an organization with a unique professional and social organization. Evaluating military attitudes from a network perspective may offer insight into the role of formal and informal leadership...

Prior to the repeal of ‘‘don’t ask, don’t tell’’ (DADT) on September 20, 2011, many observers predicted that allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual troops to serve openly would harm the military, and a group ofmore than 1,000 retired general and flag officers predicted that repeal could ‘‘break the All-Volunteer Force.’’ This study is the first scholar...

The authors investigate a gap in attitudes toward homosexuals in the U.S. military among a select group of people—American civilian undergraduates, Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) cadets, and cadets at military academies. Using a subsample (N = 3057) of data from the Biannual Attitude Survey of Students (BASS), being a military academy cadet i...

This chapter explores the meaning of the film Groundhog Day relative to social-psychological elements of boredom. The chapter presents the popular film Groundhog Day featuring actor Bill Murray as a metaphor for American soldiers' experiences in Iraq. American soldiers and others in Iraq referred to their experience as akin to the film. Groundhog D...

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The current study examined attitudes of West Point cadets (N = 218), Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets (N = 509), and non-military-affiliated students from civilian colleges (N = 598) toward a variety of roles that women may serve in the military. Respondents were queried whether a woman “should” or “should not” serve in the following mi...

Acknowledging social problems is important to social scientists on numerous levels. According to the website of the Society for the Study of Social Problems members “are an interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, advocates, and students interested in the application of critical, scientific, and humanistic perspectives to the study o...

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Many scholars in the 1990s forecasted that the military and the larger society had headed into divergent directions in terms of social attitudes between the military and the larger society. Subsequent empirical research concluded the differences less then acute as originally speculated. Indeed, the modest gap that had existed may have since narrowe...

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This essay introduces a special issue of Armed Forces & Society examining sociology at military academies around the globe. Articles represent nine countries—Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, the United States. We begin with a brief history of sociology and the military and growth of military sociology as...

Sociology and the Sociology Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, are described. Grounded in the academy's mission of educating and inspiring future leaders of character, this article focuses on the history of the Sociology Program, alignment with American Sociological Association standards, sociodemographics of cad...

The military environment has unique stressors. This study investigates the types of stressors, appraisals, and coping responses of U.S. soldiers and their leaders. A qualitative analysis of interviews indicates that the traditional coping buffers of social drinking and seeking social support from fellow soldiers, family, and leaders can potentially...

A year into the 2003 US–Iraq war, how were adolescents in Baghdad faring? Conflict‐related events typically lower psychological well‐being; in contrast, investment in and protection of threatened identities should lead to self‐esteem striving and, presumably, better well‐being. How threatened do Iraqi adolescents feel? Is their self‐esteem related...

This study compares attitudes toward the war in Iraq and President Bush's handling of the war among service members by race, gender and class using data from the 2003 Military Times Poll, examining similarities and differences to trends found in civilian data. Overall, at the time of the poll, most service members reported that they believe that th...

Embedded reporting in Operation Iraqi Freedom provided real-time coverage of soldiers in war that was viewed and read by publics around the globe. Most constituents, such as the military, media, and the larger U. S. public perceived this coverage as positive; however, live television coverage had an intense and uncalculated impact on some U.S. Army...

The United States armed-forces-and-society intersection is explored comparing attitudes toward the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan among West Point, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), and civilian undergraduates. A survey was administered in January and February 2003 to determine if military affiliation is associated with attitudes toward sendin...

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War, peace, and the military are relatively invisible in introductory sociology textbooks immediately prior to September 11, 2001. Assuming a civilian knowledge gap on matters military, this study reports on the content of introductory textbooks for core sociological knowledge on war, peace, and the military. A content analysis exposes a variety of...

Thousands of films coverwar and the military, but fewhighlight military family life. This study reports a systematic content analysis of forty-six films between 1935 and 2002 that spotlight children, adolescents, teenagers, and adults from military-service-related families. The results show a diverse range of portrayals across military branches, wa...

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As part of an experimental unit, over five hundred active- and reserve-component (AC, RC) soldiers deployed to the Sinai Desert in 1995 on a peacekeeping mission. While most junior enlisted personnel were reservists, leadership positions were shared between components. Before their departure, most soldiers had high expectations regarding their abil...

Sociology is often portrayed as an errant discipline, driving forward without any apparent direction or purpose. We contend that these perceptions about the central tenets of our discipline derive from a tack of standardization of core material, which reduces the social value of sociotogy as a scientific field and erodes its credibility as a discip...

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Sociology is often portrayed as an errant discipline, driving forward without any apparent direction or purpose. We contend that these perceptions about the central tenets of our discipline derive from a lack of standardization of core material, which reduces the social value of sociology as a scientific field and erodes its credibility as a discip...

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Social Forces 80.1 (2001) 358-359 War, Peace, and the Social Order. By Brian E. Fogarty. Westview Press, 2000. 236 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.00. A tank could be driven through the cleft of resources available for teaching about the intersection of peace, war, and military instructions from a sociological perspective. Filling this pedagogical ga...

Armed Forces & Society (AF&S), is a major scholarly outlet for social scientists interested in military subjects, and in 1999 completed 25 volumes of continuous publication. This article presents data on authorship and affiliations for volumes 1-25 of AF&S and compares the findings to studies of other scholarly journals. Topical areas of analysis i...

Service learning in the local community is a useful and effective pedagogical technique and learning process for students and instructors. We offered an integrated service-learning option in a variety of sociology courses and assessed socio-demographic and other student characteristics to explore differences between participants and nonparticipants...

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This research note explores the deleterious social effects of the 1997 Red River Valley Flood on married couples from the Upper Great Plains cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Through in-depth interviews with husbands and wives (N = 10 couples), two major findings emerged: (1) the results indicate that the flood ha...

Superficially, graffiti and disasters seem unrelated. Nevertheless, following the Red River Valley flood of 1997, a private form of graffiti emerged in public spaces in the twin cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Five thematic categories of graffiti emerged through the analysis of photographed images. The emergence...

Meliorism, empiricism, ethnography, locality, and reform characterized Midwestern American Sociology at the turn of the twentieth century. Almost a century later, the mini-regional Great Plains Sociological Association, through its refereed publication, The Great Plains Sociologist (TGPS), maintains a variant of this tradition. We examine the first...

Survey data from near 500 civilian wives of soldiers from who deployed to Somalia for Operation Restore Hope were analyzed to determine how the mechanics of soldier-family communications affected spouse adaptation to the stresses of the deployment. Difficulty communicating with the soldier (particularly "connecting for the first time") was one of t...

Previous studies of loss in a military social context have focused on organizational and military unit responses to death and serious injury and bereavement among family members. Integrating structuralist and symbolic interactionist approaches, this study describes the demanding occupational role of army casualty assistance officers (CAOs). This un...

Computer-mediated communication and cyberculture are dramatically changing the nature of social relationships. Whether cyberspace will simply retain vestiges of traditional communities with hierarchical social links and class-structured relationships or create new egalitarian social networks remains an open question. The chapters in this volume exa...