Morten G Ender
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morten G Ender |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morten G |
| FAMILY NAME | Ender |
| SIGNATURE | ENDER M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Military Academy |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-3202-0858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Hellfire from Paradise Ranch: On the Front Lines of Drone Warfare
Dinner and a Conversation: Transgender Integration at West Point and Beyond
In 2016, the United States military lifted the ban on transgender members serving and are expected to begin accessions of transgender service members in 2017. A paucity of research exists on transgender matters in the military, especially on attitudes towards cisgender service members. This study deploys a qualitative methodology, comprised of 21 focus groups of undergraduate cadets and advanced schooled Army officers (N = 110), at the United Sta…
Authorship and Affiliation in Armed Forces & Society: Developmental Trends Across Volumes 1–41
Armed Forces & Society ( AF&S) was founded in 1974 with the overall intention of creating an international arena for interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the military institution and the intersection of armed forces and their society. The present study is both a follow-up and an update of Morten Enders's article 'Authorship and Affiliation in Armed Forces & Society' covering 1,139 articles in the 41 volumes published from 1974 until 2015.…
Cadet and Civilian Undergraduate Attitudes toward Transgender People: A Research Note
We explore American military academy, Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) and civilian undergraduate attitudes toward transgender people in general, in the workplace, and in the military. Earlier this decade, the US military experienced both the repeals of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy and the exclusion of women from combat, yet transgender people are prohibited from serving openly in the military. This study explores tolerance toward perc…
Intersecting Identities: Race, Military Affiliation, and Youth Attitudes towards War
African-Americans in the U.S. military encompass at least two distinct identity groups: a racial status associated with lower support for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a military status which tends to be more ‘hawkish' in perspective. This study examines the intersection of these two status characteristics utilizing survey data of American military academy cadets, Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) cadets, and civilian students (n = 5,0…
Film Review: Patriot Guard Riders: Documentary Review
American Soldiers in Iraq
American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition. Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves as a voice for their experience. It provides the reader with both a generalized and a deep view into a major social institution in American society and its re…
A Network Evaluation of Attitudes Toward Gays and Lesbians Among U.S. Military Cadets
The U.S. military's ban on open homosexuality has become an increasingly salient issue since its implementation in 1993 and its repeal in 2011. The military is an organization with a unique professional and social organization. Evaluating military attitudes from a network perspective may offer insight into the role of formal and informal leadership in engendering attitudinal change and cultural tolerance around homosexuality. This study evaluates…
Readiness and Dadt Repeal: Has the New Policy of Open Service Undermined the Military
Prior to the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' (DADT) on September 20, 2011, many observers predicted that allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual troops to serve openly would harm the military, and a group of more than 1,000 retired general and flag officers predicted that repeal could 'break the All-Volunteer Force.' This study is the first scholarly effort to assess the accuracy of such predictions about the impact of DADT repeal on military readin…
The Routledge Handbook of War and Society: Iraq and Afghanistan
Foreword Christopher Dandeker. Introduction Steven Carlton-Ford and Morton G. Ender Part 1: War on the Ground: Combat and its Aftermath 1. Fighting Two Protracted Wars: Recruiting and Retention with an All-Volunteer Force Susan M. Ross 2. Fighting the Irregular War in Afghanistan: Success in Combat - Struggles in Stabilization Brigid Myers Pavilonis 3. Learning the Lessons of Counterinsurgency Ian Roxborough 4. Twenty-First Century Narratives fro…
War: Causes and Consequences
Product Review: Witness to War
Sociology in Military Officer Education
This essay introduces a special issue of Armed Forces & Society examining sociology at military academies around the globe. Articles represent nine countries-Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, the United States. We begin with a brief history of sociology and the military and growth of military sociology as a subfield, followed by the development of military academies in general and sociology at military …
Sociology at West Point
Sociology and the Sociology Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, are described. Grounded in the academy's mission of educating and inspiring future leaders of character, this article focuses on the history of the Sociology Program, alignment with American Sociological Association standards, sociodemographics of cadet sociology majors, recent graduates, the curriculum, extracurricular activities, and the sociology…
Greedy Media: Army Families, Embedded Reporting, and War in Iraq
Embedded reporting in Operation Iraqi Freedom provided real-time coverage of soldiers in war that was viewed and read by publics around the globe. Most constituents, such as the military, media, and the larger U. S. public perceived this coverage as positive; however, live television coverage had an intense and uncalculated impact on some U.S. Army wives and others on a military post at the individual, community, and institutional levels. This st…
The Effects of Military Affiliation, Gender, and Political Ideology on Attitudes toward the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
The United States armed-forces-and-society intersection is explored comparing attitudes toward the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan among West Point, Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), and civilian undergraduates. A survey was administered in January and February 2003 to determine if military affiliation is associated with attitudes toward sending troops into Afghanistan after the war started and Iraq before sending troops. Majorities of all st…
Search Not for the Core in the Knowledge Frontier: A Reply to Schweingruber
Military Brats: Film Representations of Children from Military Families
Thousands of films coverwar and the military, but fewhighlight military family life. This study reports a systematic content analysis of forty-six films between 1935 and 2002 that spotlight children, adolescents, teenagers, and adults from military-service-related families. The results show a diverse range of portrayals across military branches, wars, genders, races, ages, military ranks, roles, and familial relationships. Furthermore, cinematic …
Sociology and a General Understanding of Social Life
The Sociological Core: Conceptual Patterns and Idiosyncrasies in the Structure and Content of Introductory Sociology Textbooks, 1940-2000
Sociology is often portrayed as an errant discipline, driving forward without any apparent direction or purpose. We contend that these perceptions about the central tenets of our discipline derive from a lack of standardization of core material, which reduces the social value of sociology as a scientific field and erodes its credibility as a discipline. Insofar as common conceptual knowledge exists in the field of sociology, one ought to find evi…
Core, What Core? Looking Beyond the Introductory Textbook for Answers
Expectations, Use, and Evaluation of Communication Media among Deployed Peacekeepers
As part of an experimental unit, over five hundred active- and reserve-component (AC, RC) soldiers deployed to the Sinai Desert in 1995 on a peacekeeping mission. While most junior enlisted personnel were reservists, leadership positions were shared between components. Before their departure, most soldiers had high expectations regarding their ability to use a variety of communication media to reach their families. While their reported use of com…
Systems of War and Peace
Chapter 1 Preface to the Second Edition Chapter 2 Preface to the First Edition Chapter 3 Institutional Patterns: War as a Social Institution Chapter 4 Peace as a Social Institution Chapter 5 Theoretical Models of War and Peace Chapter 6 International Law Chapter 7 The Contemporary War System Chapter 8 Military Systems:The Origins of Modern Military Organization Chapter 9 Modern Military Organization Chapter 10 Military Culture Chapter 11 Military…
Authorship and Affiliation in Armed Forces & Society: Volumes 1-25
Armed Forces & Society (AF&S), is a major scholarly outlet for social scientists interested in military subjects, and in 1999 completed 25 volumes of continuous publication. This article presents data on authorship and affiliations for volumes 1-25 of AF&S and compares the findings to studies of other scholarly journals. Topical areas of analysis include (co)authorship, sex configurations of (co)authors, and academic, regional, and institutional …
U.S. Army Generals and the Rhetoric of Modesty: A Commentary
The Sociological Core: Conceptual Patterns and Idiosyncrasies in the Structure and Content of Introductory Sociology Textbooks, 1940-2000
Sociology is often portrayed as an errant discipline, driving forward without any apparent direction or purpose. We contend that these perceptions about the central tenets of our discipline derive from a lack of standardization of core material, which reduces the social value of sociology as a scientific field and erodes its credibility as a discipline. Insofar as common conceptual knowledge exists in the field of sociology, one ought to find evi…
The Effects of Military Affiliation, Gender, and Political Ideology on Attitudes toward the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
The United States armed-forces-and-society intersection is explored comparing attitudes toward the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan among West Point, Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), and civilian undergraduates. A survey was administered in January and February 2003 to determine if military affiliation is associated with attitudes toward sending troops into Afghanistan after the war started and Iraq before sending troops. Majorities of all st…
Core, What Core? Looking Beyond the Introductory Textbook for Answers
Authorship and Affiliation in Armed Forces & Society: Volumes 1-25
Armed Forces & Society (AF&S), is a major scholarly outlet for social scientists interested in military subjects, and in 1999 completed 25 volumes of continuous publication. This article presents data on authorship and affiliations for volumes 1-25 of AF&S and compares the findings to studies of other scholarly journals. Topical areas of analysis include (co)authorship, sex configurations of (co)authors, and academic, regional, and institutional …
Expectations, Use, and Evaluation of Communication Media among Deployed Peacekeepers
As part of an experimental unit, over five hundred active- and reserve-component (AC, RC) soldiers deployed to the Sinai Desert in 1995 on a peacekeeping mission. While most junior enlisted personnel were reservists, leadership positions were shared between components. Before their departure, most soldiers had high expectations regarding their ability to use a variety of communication media to reach their families. While their reported use of com…
Readiness and Dadt Repeal: Has the New Policy of Open Service Undermined the Military
Prior to the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' (DADT) on September 20, 2011, many observers predicted that allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual troops to serve openly would harm the military, and a group of more than 1,000 retired general and flag officers predicted that repeal could 'break the All-Volunteer Force.' This study is the first scholarly effort to assess the accuracy of such predictions about the impact of DADT repeal on military readin…
G.I. Phone Home: The Use of Telecommunications by the Soldiers of Operation Just Cause
This article is based on a secondary analysis of post combat debriefing interviews conducted by the Department of Military Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, with 811 active duty U.S. Army service men and women who participated in Operation Just Cause, the invasion of Panama, in December 1989. The data offer a unique and unprecedented perspective on the use of telecommunications, and this study sought to illustrate the use of tel…
Dinner and a Conversation: Transgender Integration at West Point and Beyond
In 2016, the United States military lifted the ban on transgender members serving and are expected to begin accessions of transgender service members in 2017. A paucity of research exists on transgender matters in the military, especially on attitudes towards cisgender service members. This study deploys a qualitative methodology, comprised of 21 focus groups of undergraduate cadets and advanced schooled Army officers (N = 110), at the United Sta…
Authorship and Affiliation in Armed Forces & Society: Developmental Trends Across Volumes 1–41
Armed Forces & Society ( AF&S) was founded in 1974 with the overall intention of creating an international arena for interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the military institution and the intersection of armed forces and their society. The present study is both a follow-up and an update of Morten Enders's article 'Authorship and Affiliation in Armed Forces & Society' covering 1,139 articles in the 41 volumes published from 1974 until 2015.…
Cadet and Civilian Undergraduate Attitudes toward Transgender People: A Research Note
We explore American military academy, Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) and civilian undergraduate attitudes toward transgender people in general, in the workplace, and in the military. Earlier this decade, the US military experienced both the repeals of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy and the exclusion of women from combat, yet transgender people are prohibited from serving openly in the military. This study explores tolerance toward perc…
Sociology in Military Officer Education
This essay introduces a special issue of Armed Forces & Society examining sociology at military academies around the globe. Articles represent nine countries-Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, the United States. We begin with a brief history of sociology and the military and growth of military sociology as a subfield, followed by the development of military academies in general and sociology at military …
Greedy Media: Army Families, Embedded Reporting, and War in Iraq
Embedded reporting in Operation Iraqi Freedom provided real-time coverage of soldiers in war that was viewed and read by publics around the globe. Most constituents, such as the military, media, and the larger U. S. public perceived this coverage as positive; however, live television coverage had an intense and uncalculated impact on some U.S. Army wives and others on a military post at the individual, community, and institutional levels. This st…
Search Not for the Core in the Knowledge Frontier: A Reply to Schweingruber
Working with the bereaved: U.S. army experiences with nontraditional families
This paper uses a postmodern family perspective to examine the interaction between Army Casualty Assistance Officers (CAOs) and the families of deceased soldiers. The data we examine are open-ended survey responses of CAOs (N = 188) who assisted bereaved families of soldiers killed in three unrelated air disasters. Five themes emerged from our analysis of the qualitative responses: postmodern family structures, contested definitions of "significa…
A Network Evaluation of Attitudes Toward Gays and Lesbians Among U.S. Military Cadets
The U.S. military's ban on open homosexuality has become an increasingly salient issue since its implementation in 1993 and its repeal in 2011. The military is an organization with a unique professional and social organization. Evaluating military attitudes from a network perspective may offer insight into the role of formal and informal leadership in engendering attitudinal change and cultural tolerance around homosexuality. This study evaluates…
Organizational responses to death in the military
When a friend or loved one dies, the challenge for survivors is to somehow cope effectively with the loss and go on living and functioning. This is true not only for family members, but also for friends and coworkers of the deceased. How organizations respond to a death can influence coping in either a positive or negative direction. Military organizations have long experience with death, and have developed poprams and policies aimed at assisting…
Hellfire from Paradise Ranch: On the Front Lines of Drone Warfare
The Desert Fax: A Research Note on Calling Home from Somalia
Survey data from near 500 civilian wives of soldiers from who deployed to Somalia for Operation Restore Hope were analyzed to determine how the mechanics of soldier-family communications affected spouse adaptation to the stresses of the deployment. Difficulty communicating with the soldier (particularly "connecting for the first time") was one of the most frequent problems that spouses experienced. This difficulty was more strongly related to the…
American Soldiers in Iraq
American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition. Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves as a voice for their experience. It provides the reader with both a generalized and a deep view into a major social institution in American society and its re…
Sociology at West Point
Sociology and the Sociology Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, are described. Grounded in the academy's mission of educating and inspiring future leaders of character, this article focuses on the history of the Sociology Program, alignment with American Sociological Association standards, sociodemographics of cadet sociology majors, recent graduates, the curriculum, extracurricular activities, and the sociology…
Military Brats: Film Representations of Children from Military Families
Thousands of films coverwar and the military, but fewhighlight military family life. This study reports a systematic content analysis of forty-six films between 1935 and 2002 that spotlight children, adolescents, teenagers, and adults from military-service-related families. The results show a diverse range of portrayals across military branches, wars, genders, races, ages, military ranks, roles, and familial relationships. Furthermore, cinematic …
Sociology and a General Understanding of Social Life
Where's the Learning in Service Learning
Revisiting regional traditions: An emerging sociology of the great plains
Organizational responses to death in the military
When a friend or loved one dies, the challenge for survivors is to somehow cope effectively with the loss and go on living and functioning. This is true not only for family members, but also for friends and coworkers of the deceased. How organizations respond to a death can influence coping in either a positive or negative direction. Military organizations have long experience with death, and have developed poprams and policies aimed at assisting…
G.I. Phone Home: The Use of Telecommunications by the Soldiers of Operation Just Cause
This article is based on a secondary analysis of post combat debriefing interviews conducted by the Department of Military Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, with 811 active duty U.S. Army service men and women who participated in Operation Just Cause, the invasion of Panama, in December 1989. The data offer a unique and unprecedented perspective on the use of telecommunications, and this study sought to illustrate the use of tel…
Working with the bereaved: U.S. army experiences with nontraditional families
This paper uses a postmodern family perspective to examine the interaction between Army Casualty Assistance Officers (CAOs) and the families of deceased soldiers. The data we examine are open-ended survey responses of CAOs (N = 188) who assisted bereaved families of soldiers killed in three unrelated air disasters. Five themes emerged from our analysis of the qualitative responses: postmodern family structures, contested definitions of "significa…
Revisiting regional traditions: An emerging sociology of the great plains
The Desert Fax: A Research Note on Calling Home from Somalia
Survey data from near 500 civilian wives of soldiers from who deployed to Somalia for Operation Restore Hope were analyzed to determine how the mechanics of soldier-family communications affected spouse adaptation to the stresses of the deployment. Difficulty communicating with the soldier (particularly "connecting for the first time") was one of the most frequent problems that spouses experienced. This difficulty was more strongly related to the…
U.S. Army Generals and the Rhetoric of Modesty: A Commentary
Where's the Learning in Service Learning
Given an Opportunity to Reach out: Heterogeneous Participation in Optional Service-Learning Projects
Morten G. Ender, Lee Martin, David A. Cotter, Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski, Joann Defiore, Given an Opportunity to Reach out: Heterogeneous Participation in Optional Service-Learning Projects, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Jul., 2000), pp. 206-219
Authorship and Affiliation in Armed Forces & Society: Volumes 1-25
Armed Forces & Society (AF&S), is a major scholarly outlet for social scientists interested in military subjects, and in 1999 completed 25 volumes of continuous publication. This article presents data on authorship and affiliations for volumes 1-25 of AF&S and compares the findings to studies of other scholarly journals. Topical areas of analysis include (co)authorship, sex configurations of (co)authors, and academic, regional, and institutional …
Systems of War and Peace
Chapter 1 Preface to the Second Edition Chapter 2 Preface to the First Edition Chapter 3 Institutional Patterns: War as a Social Institution Chapter 4 Peace as a Social Institution Chapter 5 Theoretical Models of War and Peace Chapter 6 International Law Chapter 7 The Contemporary War System Chapter 8 Military Systems:The Origins of Modern Military Organization Chapter 9 Modern Military Organization Chapter 10 Military Culture Chapter 11 Military…
Sociology and a General Understanding of Social Life
The Sociological Core: Conceptual Patterns and Idiosyncrasies in the Structure and Content of Introductory Sociology Textbooks, 1940-2000
Sociology is often portrayed as an errant discipline, driving forward without any apparent direction or purpose. We contend that these perceptions about the central tenets of our discipline derive from a lack of standardization of core material, which reduces the social value of sociology as a scientific field and erodes its credibility as a discipline. Insofar as common conceptual knowledge exists in the field of sociology, one ought to find evi…
Core, What Core? Looking Beyond the Introductory Textbook for Answers
Expectations, Use, and Evaluation of Communication Media among Deployed Peacekeepers
As part of an experimental unit, over five hundred active- and reserve-component (AC, RC) soldiers deployed to the Sinai Desert in 1995 on a peacekeeping mission. While most junior enlisted personnel were reservists, leadership positions were shared between components. Before their departure, most soldiers had high expectations regarding their ability to use a variety of communication media to reach their families. While their reported use of com…
Search Not for the Core in the Knowledge Frontier: A Reply to Schweingruber
Military Brats: Film Representations of Children from Military Families
Thousands of films coverwar and the military, but fewhighlight military family life. This study reports a systematic content analysis of forty-six films between 1935 and 2002 that spotlight children, adolescents, teenagers, and adults from military-service-related families. The results show a diverse range of portrayals across military branches, wars, genders, races, ages, military ranks, roles, and familial relationships. Furthermore, cinematic …
The Effects of Military Affiliation, Gender, and Political Ideology on Attitudes toward the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
The United States armed-forces-and-society intersection is explored comparing attitudes toward the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan among West Point, Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), and civilian undergraduates. A survey was administered in January and February 2003 to determine if military affiliation is associated with attitudes toward sending troops into Afghanistan after the war started and Iraq before sending troops. Majorities of all st…
Greedy Media: Army Families, Embedded Reporting, and War in Iraq
Embedded reporting in Operation Iraqi Freedom provided real-time coverage of soldiers in war that was viewed and read by publics around the globe. Most constituents, such as the military, media, and the larger U. S. public perceived this coverage as positive; however, live television coverage had an intense and uncalculated impact on some U.S. Army wives and others on a military post at the individual, community, and institutional levels. This st…
Product Review: Witness to War
Sociology in Military Officer Education
This essay introduces a special issue of Armed Forces & Society examining sociology at military academies around the globe. Articles represent nine countries-Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, the United States. We begin with a brief history of sociology and the military and growth of military sociology as a subfield, followed by the development of military academies in general and sociology at military …
Sociology at West Point
Sociology and the Sociology Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, are described. Grounded in the academy's mission of educating and inspiring future leaders of character, this article focuses on the history of the Sociology Program, alignment with American Sociological Association standards, sociodemographics of cadet sociology majors, recent graduates, the curriculum, extracurricular activities, and the sociology…
The Routledge Handbook of War and Society: Iraq and Afghanistan
Foreword Christopher Dandeker. Introduction Steven Carlton-Ford and Morton G. Ender Part 1: War on the Ground: Combat and its Aftermath 1. Fighting Two Protracted Wars: Recruiting and Retention with an All-Volunteer Force Susan M. Ross 2. Fighting the Irregular War in Afghanistan: Success in Combat - Struggles in Stabilization Brigid Myers Pavilonis 3. Learning the Lessons of Counterinsurgency Ian Roxborough 4. Twenty-First Century Narratives fro…
War: Causes and Consequences
American Soldiers in Iraq
American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition. Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves as a voice for their experience. It provides the reader with both a generalized and a deep view into a major social institution in American society and its re…
A Network Evaluation of Attitudes Toward Gays and Lesbians Among U.S. Military Cadets
The U.S. military's ban on open homosexuality has become an increasingly salient issue since its implementation in 1993 and its repeal in 2011. The military is an organization with a unique professional and social organization. Evaluating military attitudes from a network perspective may offer insight into the role of formal and informal leadership in engendering attitudinal change and cultural tolerance around homosexuality. This study evaluates…
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