Student Officer: The intellectual in the military camp

Author: Tian Youzhong
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The author focuses on the new group of students who join the army from civilian universities as the research subjects. Using methods such as interviews and questionnaires, they collected a wealth of material and comprehensively analyzed the adaptation and growth of these students in military socialization. This book offers certain pioneering and innovative contributions in the research literature of similar themes. For the first time, it systematically investigates and studies three groups—students who join the army from civilian universities, soldiers promoted to officers, and university graduates from military academies—and constructs theoretical frameworks such as the preservation and creation of group characteristics, the reproduction of micro-social structures, and trust and creation. The research approach of this book is clear, the expression is distinct, the logical structure is reasonable and rigorous, and it achieves a high academic level, making it an outstanding achievement in military sociology research in recent years.
How do civilian university students adapt to the military after joining, how can they better adapt to military life and achieve better self-development opportunities, and how do they interact with promoted officers and military academy graduates in the army? This book examines and answers these questions from the perspective of military sociology, both theoretically and empirically. The research approach of this book is clear, the expression is distinct, the logical structure is reasonable and rigorous, the language is fluent, making it suitable for researchers to savor in detail, as well as for students who join the army from civilian universities, promoted officers, military academy graduates, and readers who wish to understand the actual situation in the military.