Military Heroism: An Operational Definition: A Comment

Armed Forces & Society

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 149-153

  Blake, Joseph A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY EAST   (United States)

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EID: 84970648996     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X8701400109     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. J.W. Anderson, “Military Heroism: An Occupational [sic] Definition,” Armed Forces & Society 12 (Summer 1986): pp. 591-606.
2. S.L.A. Marshall, Men Against Fire (New York: Morrow, 1947), p. 23.
3. G. Johnson, “Kin Selection, Socialization, and Patriotism: An Integrating Theory,” Politics and the Life Sciences 4 (February 1986): pp. 127-154.
4. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Medal of Honor Recipients 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1973).
5. J. A. Blake and S. Butler, ‘ ‘The Medal of Honor, Combat Orientations and Latent Role Structure in the United States Military,” Sociological Quarterly 17 (Autumn 1976): pp. 561-567, esp. p. 566.
6. J.A. Blake, “The Congressional Medal of Honor in Three Wars,” Pacific Sociological Review 16 (April 1973): pp. 166-176.
7. Anderson, “Military Heroism,” p. 598; see also R.A. Beaumont, Military Elites (Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974); and W.C. Cockerham, “Green Berets and the Symbolic Meaning of Heroism” (Paper presented to the American Sociological Association, 1976).
8. Anderson, “Military Heroism,” p. 604.
9. Blake and Butler, “The Medal of Honor.”
10. J.A. Blake, “Death by Hand Grenade: Altruistic Suicide in Combat,” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 8,1 (Spring 1978): pp. 46-59.
11. The list of 66 was generated from Senate Committee, Medal of Honor Recipients.
12. C.C. Moskos, Jr., ‘ ‘The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam, ‘ ‘ Journal of Social Issues 31 (Fail 1975): pp. 25-37, esp. p. 31.
13. Moskos, “American Combat Soldier,” p. 31.
14. S. Siegal, Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956).
15. Anderson, “Military Heroism,” pp. 596-597.