<p>Seminar, three hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Study of relationship between society’s military and its social organization in general, with particular attention to shock-based civic militarism characteristic of the West. Topics include honor, discipline, bureaucracy, conscription, logistics, total war, guerilla war, terrorism, and counterinsurgency. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. Letter grading.</p>

Sociology

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College of Letters and Science

Sociology is the study of the organization, dynamics, and consequences of social life.

General Catalog

Undergraduate Seminar: War and Society

SOCIOL 191T

5 units