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Militarization, or militarisation, is the process by which a society organizes itself for military conflict and violence.It is related to militarism, which is an ideology that reflects the level of militarization of a state.
Militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) are conflicts between states that do not involve a full-scale war. These include any conflicts in which one or more states threaten, display, or use force against one or more other states.
Military sociology is a subfield within sociology. It corresponds closely to C. Wright Mills 's summons to connect the individual world to broader social structures. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Military sociology aims toward the systematic study of the military as a social group rather than as a military organization .
A relic border is a former boundary, which may no longer be a legal boundary at all. However, the former presence of the boundary can still be seen in the landscape. For instance, the boundary between East and West Germany is no longer an international boundary, but it can still be seen because of historical markers on the landscape; it remains ...
Studies in boundary-work have also focused on how individual scientific disciplines are created. [5] Following the work of Pierre Bourdieu on the "scientific field", many have looked at ways in which certain "objects" are able to bridge the erected boundaries because they satisfy the needs of multiple social groups (boundary objects).
The disputed Jammu and Kashmir region is regarded as one of the world’s most militarized places. [10] In recent years, the Indian government has increased the military expenditure of the 1.4 million-strong military across all branches and embarked on a rapid modernization program. [11] [12]
In military terms, deterrence success refers to preventing state leaders from issuing military threats and actions that escalate peacetime diplomatic and military co-operation into a crisis or militarized confrontation that threatens armed conflict and possibly war. The prevention of crises of wars, however, is not the only aim of deterrence.
Examples of middle-range theories are theories of reference groups, social mobility, normalization processes, role conflict and the formation of social norms. [3] The middle-range approach has played a role in turning sociology into an increasingly empirically oriented discipline. [7] This was also important in post-war thought.