The Military, War and Society: The Need for Critical Sociological Engagement

Heinecken, Lindy

doi:10.5787/43-1-1107

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“…Weber's ideal types construction was chosen because we consider his methodology relevant for a case study, significant historical event, potential for comparability and applicability for the complexity (Ragin & Zaret, 1983;Psathas, 2005). Besides that, Weber analyzed the influence of war and military on the state, which means he was engaged in this context (Heinecken, 2015) and only few sociologists have been writing about war. But, it must be mentioned that in contrast to Weber, our ideal types were constructed empirically out of the data.…”

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confidence: 99%

Voluntary Work during Times of Military Crisis: What Motivates People to Be Involved and What Are the Effects on Well-Being?

Karhina¹,

Ghazinour²,

Ng³

et al. 2017

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The positive health effects of volunteering are quite well described in the literature; however, potential negative effects of volunteering are less explored. Volunteering got attention in Ukraine because of the recent political crisis that brought military conflict to the Eastern part of the country in 2014. Informal volunteering has transformed into a formal one. In order to be able to organize volunteering that promotes well-being, it is important to have more in-depth knowledge about motives behind volunteering as well as the positive and potential negative effects of it. We explore the case voluntary work in of one of the cities in Ukraine. Military conflict context has its own specifics and different motives make people act voluntarily. There are goal-oriented, value-oriented, affectual and traditional motives present in our data. The data shows that involvement in volunteering brings positive returns on well-being of the providers such as enlarging the circles of friendship and expanding the networks volunteers involved in; brings positive emotions into life; compensates the efforts and gives meaning to life. However, the negative effects of volunteering are also present. They are physical tiredness and a lot of time spent on volunteering activities; becoming disconnected from the ordinary (non-volunteering) world; unsafety; neglect of own needs and experiences of negative emotions out of the involvement in volunteering activities.

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Voluntary Work during Times of Military Crisis: What Motivates People to Be Involved and What Are the Effects on Well-Being?

Karhina¹,

Ghazinour²,

Ng³

et al. 2017

PSYCH

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“…Methodology. The theoretical basis of our research is different conceptions and methods for studying MI of service(wo)men/veterans 4 [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13], as well as theories of service(wo)men/veterans" transition from the civilian environment to the military environment, and vice versa [3; 14-21]. The most known methods for measuring MI are the Warrior Identity Scale by S. Lancaster, S. Kinchle, S. Castro [8; 9] and the Military Professional Identity Scale for measuring modifications of MI (idealism, professionalism, warriorism, and individualism) by R. Johansen, D. Laberg, & M. Martinusen [1; 7].…”

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Influence of military identity on social adaptation of Ukrainian veterans

Батаева¹,

Artemenko²,

Humanities³

2021

Ukr. socìum

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The article examines the influence of different forms of the military identity of veterans on the degree of their social adaptation. We define “military identity” as a result of the social identity of a service(wo)man with the military due to the internalization of values and norms adopted in the military sphere. A “veteran” is a service(wo)man who served in the army, participated in combat operations, and was demobilized in connection with the end of the term of service or for health reasons, regardless of the types of military forces and military service. We have used a sociological method of measuring the stable, situational, and unformed types of veterans’ military identity based on the following criteria: social identification, the strength of connection with the army, biographical importance of military service, perception of the army as a family, recognition of the individual in the army, existential assessment of military service, the importance of military practices after demobilization, social contacts with former service(wo)men, the positive assessment of the military culture of obedience/discipline. We have studied the influence of the following factors – duration of staying in the combat zone, conscription age, motivation to join the army, marital status, and traumatic combat experience – on the formation of military identity. According to the quota sample, the results of the study “Military identity and social adaptation of Ukrainian veterans” are presented; 400 veterans (n = 400) were interviewed according to the quota sample. We found out that veterans with a stable military identity mainly had a low level of social adaptability to the civilian life; veterans with a situational form of military identity mostly had a medium level of social adaptability; veterans with an unformed type of military identity were the most adapted to the civilian life.

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“…Given the comparatively low levels of social capital in Ukraine, the recent experience of civically organized and well-spread voluntarily services during the ongoing military conflict, constitute a quite unique and interesting event. Despite the fact that social capital has been utilized in numerous studies within many research fields, there is a lack of knowledge on how social capital develops and changes in periods of societal crises and how this in turn may influence mental health of population (Carlson, 2016;Eriksson & Emmelin, 2016;Heinecken, 2015). This study aims to fill this gap.…”

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“…Social capital is believed to foster peace, facilitate institutional and interpersonal trust and support, as well as safety and security, and may thus become an important resource in times of military conflict. But at the same time it can become a negative tool to facilitate development of the military conflict (Cox, 2008;Deng, 2010;Heinecken, 2015).…”

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Social Capital Transformation, Voluntarily Services and Mental Health During Times of Military Conflict in Ukraine

Karhina¹,

Ghazinour²,

Ng³

et al. 2017

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Background: The effects of war as well as military conflict include long-term physical and psychological harm to children and adults. Social relations and trust play a role in peace building and conflict resolution. Social capital is believed to facilitate institutional and interpersonal trust as well as safety and security, and thus may become an important resource in times of military conflict.Objective: The aims of this study are to analyse how social capital may be transformed due to a military conflict in contemporary Ukraine and to explore the role of voluntarily services in this change. Further we aim to discuss the possible influence of social capital transformation on mental health in times of military conflict.Methods: A qualitative case study design was chosen to explore it. In-depth interviews were chosen as a method for data collection. Informant's selection criteria were: either to be involved in volunteering activities in the city of Khmelnitsky (which is the place of research) or to receive volunteering help. 18 interviews were conducted.Informants were reached by snowball sampling. Interviews are collected, transcribed, translated and analyzed using constructive Grounded Theory approach of Charmaz. Results:Our results show that social capital transforms during military conflict experiences. The changes happen both in cognitive and structural components since they are connected. The most important changes occur in bonding social capital, where new formation such as brotherhood, emerges and replaces previous bonding ties with family and friends. In addition, voluntarily acting actors (those who normally belong to bridging social capital) transform into relations with bonding entities. New forms of social capital are thus generated through the existence of voluntarily services, and these networks provide essential social support in times of military conflict. Perceived support softens negative emotional responses to traumatic events. In line with the stress-buffering model, our results support that the formation of new social capital in times of military conflict may protect against the negative mental health effects of these experiences.

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The Military, War and Society: The Need for Critical Sociological Engagement

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

Voluntary Work during Times of Military Crisis: What Motivates People to Be Involved and What Are the Effects on Well-Being?

Voluntary Work during Times of Military Crisis: What Motivates People to Be Involved and What Are the Effects on Well-Being?

Influence of military identity on social adaptation of Ukrainian veterans

Social Capital Transformation, Voluntarily Services and Mental Health During Times of Military Conflict in Ukraine

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