To stand in line and fit in—About military men's (un)reflected navigation in the armed forces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12911754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frida Linehagen (0000-0001-5464-5259, Swedish Defence University, corresponding author), Matthew Wester (0000-0002-4671-758X, Lund University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.13056 |
| OpenAlex | W4311297502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 47 |
The purpose of the study is to investigate how the everyday experience of being a man in a male‐dominated organization and what navigating the organization is like. The study builds on 15 interviews with men of various ages and ranks in the Swedish Armed Forces. The findings revealed three major themes that illustrate how men, and their actions, contribute to producing and re‐producing gendered norms. First, the ideal military person is seen to have characteristics that are predominantly male and even though respondents only identify with these characteristics to some extent, the typical male ideal is still prevalent within the Armed Forces. Second, this image is reproduced by an uncritical stance towards the internal workings of the organization, relating to career paths and their reliance of traditional gendered roles. Third, the Armed Forces encounter resistance to gender equality work from within the military organization, in both action and inactions. We suggest this is due to a resistance to change and that work with gender equality is minimized to a shadow task that lacks committed men. We conclude that men's reality seems both obvious and unreflected, and these structures are upheld within the Armed Forces
Action (physics · Ideal (ethics · Military justice · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Resistance (ecology · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |