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Military experience and the shaping of nationalism in the U.S. armed forces.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Military experience and the shaping of nationalism in the U.S. armed forces./
Author:	Zook, Carolyn L.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	230 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-05A(E).
Subject:	Social research. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10183774
ISBN:	9781369318982

Military experience and the shaping of nationalism in the U.S. armed forces.
Zook, Carolyn L.

Military experience and the shaping of nationalism in the U.S. armed forces. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 230 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2016.

This study examines the agency of individuals, their understanding of nationalist messages, and how these messages are then incorporated back into the everyday. Specifically, I ask: What combat experiences explain a soldier's critical, nationalistic, or mixed attitude toward the U.S. following their combat deployment? What structural factors resonate at the individual level? How are broad messages of national unity, sacrifice, and patriotism interpreted and consequently incorporated into everyday lives? Sociological work on nationalism has largely ignored the American case, as well as individual level data in current research on nationalism; gaps this dissertation aims to fill. To answer these questions, I used a mixed methods approach to collect and analyze two data sets: 1) a quantitative survey on nationalistic attitudes of soldiers, and 2) in-depth, semi-structured interviews with U.S. soldiers who served in combat zones of the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. These questions were conceptualized by focusing on three key areas of solders' combat experiences: 1) Recruitment: Soldiers who enlisted because of 9/11 will view their combat experiences with a more nationalistic view than those who enlisted prior to 9/11. Findings showed that 9/11 was not as important of a factor as initially thought, but rather that soldiers are committed to service in general; 2) Combat: Soldiers who served in a combat zone will rationalize significant experiences with a more nationalistic view than those who report no experience of significant or difficult events.

ISBN: 9781369318982Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122687
Social research.

Military experience and the shaping of nationalism in the U.S. armed forces.
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