Group cohesion, culture, and practice

Armed Forces and Society

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 745-753

  Kirke, Charles ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Army; Military culture; Military group cohesion

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549110579     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X09332144     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Anthony King, The Word of Command: Communication and Cohesion in the Military, Armed Forces & Society 32, 4 (2006): 493-512.
2. Anthony King, The Structure of Social Theory (London: Routledge, 2004).
3. Guy L. Siebold, The Essence of Military Group Cohesion, Armed Forces & Society 33, 2 (2007): 286-95, 291.
4. Ibid., 294.
5. Anthony King, The Existence of Group Cohesion in the Armed Forces, Armed Forces & Society 33, 4 (2007): 638-45, 643.
6. Norah Kinzer Stewart, Mates and Muchachos: Unit Cohesion in the Falklands/Malvinas War (New York: Brassey's, 1991).
7. E.g., Emile Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method, ed. George E. G. Catlin, trans. Sarah A. Solovay and John H. Mueller (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938).
8. Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown, Structure and Function in Primitive Society (London: Cohen and West, 1952).
9. 8. See, e.g., Erving Goffman, Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1975).
10. See, e.g., Anthony Giddens, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 1984).
11. The word soldier means any member of a military unit, regardless of rank.
12. All terms specific to the model are written in italics.
13. Fuller expositions of this model appear in, for example, Charles Kirke, A Model for the Analysis of Fighting Spirit in the British Army, in The British Army, Manpower and Society into the Twenty-first Century, ed. H. Strachan (London: Frank Cass, 2000).
14. Charles Kirke, Organizational Culture-The Unexpected Force, Journal of Battlefield Technology 7, 2 (2004): 11-18.
15. Charles Kirke, Postmodernism to Structure: An Upstream Journey for the Military Recruit? in Defence Management in Uncertain Times, ed. Richard Holmes and Teri McConville (London: Frank Cass, 2003), 139-55.
16. B.G. Glaser and A.L. Strauss, The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968).
17. These three quotes are from King, Word of Command, 495.
18. Emile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, trans. Joseph Ward Swain (London: Allen and Unwin, 1954).
19. King, Word of Command, 496.
20. Ibid., 510.