Meanings of military ranks

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12699321
AutoresJukka Mattila (0000-0001-6622-5753, Department of Management Studies, Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland, autor de correspondencia), Sampo Tukiainen (Department of Management Studies, Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland), Sami Kajalo (0000-0002-3076-2976, Department of Marketing, Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland)
Año2017
Volumen17
Número4
Páginas359-378
Fecha de publicación2017-08-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDefence Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-2436 • E-ISSN: 1743-9698
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14702436.2017.1364967
OpenAlexW2750494165
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas73

This paper studies what kinds of meanings reserve officers ascribe to military ranks. The study builds on existing literature on reserve forces and hypothesizes that military ranks among reserve officers are subject to rendering the ranks with multiple meanings, and which are bound to create ambiguity of interpretation. To elaborate these theoretical insights a survey among Finnish reserve officers was conducted (N = 6193). The data was analyzed using factor analysis and correlation analysis. The results show that military ranks are ascribed, in addition to the functionalistic, hierarchical meaning, also with meanings of prestige, proficiency, and identity. The main theoretical contribution of the paper is in complementing the previous literature on ambiguity of military ranks by specifying four different meanings in the interpretation of the ranks

Ambiguity · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Prestige · Ranking (information retrieval · Sociology · Computer Science · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Military, Security, and Education Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence