Officer Education at the South African Military Academy

Social Science but No Sociology

Bibliographic Data

ID2340639
AuthorsLindy Heinecken (0000-0003-1315-0000, Stellenbosch University, corresponding author), Deon Visser (Stellenbosch University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume35
Issue1
Pages145-161
Publication date2008-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArmed Forces & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0095327x08316052
OpenAlexW2099595796
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited4

This article reviews the status of military sociology in South Africa by examining where it is being taught and researched within sociology as a discipline and at the South African Military Academy (hereafter, Academy). The conclusion is reached that it has not been a prominent area of academic focus possibly because of the fact that at present only one civilian university's sociology department presents a related course. Looking at the historic development of the academic offerings at the Academy, at no time has military sociology been presented as a course, although it is masked within some of the other social science disciplines. Only recently has the relevance of military sociology as a discipline in its own right been acknowledged, and it appears as if it may well find a place in the education of young officers at the Academy in the near future

Higher education · Management · Military science · Military sociology · Officer · Political science · Relevance (law) · Social science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Military History and Strategy · Military, Security, and Education Studies