| Autor: |
Badillo, Gilbert, Curry, G. David |
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| Zdroj: |
Armed Forces & Society (0095-327X); 5/1/1976, p397, 10p |
| Abstrakt: |
Taking the casualty rate of each of 101 Cook County (Chicago) communities as the dependent variable, and controlling for both the age and size characteristics of each community, the direct effect of socioeconomic status on combat deaths was distinguished from the extraneous effects of race and level of military participation. The resulting data justify a suggested model for the likelihood of casualty: among enlisted men, the military assignment process operated under the norms of bureaucratic efficiency and relied on criteria highly contingent on socioeconomic origins to channel individuals from lower-class backgrounds into positions more susceptible to combat casualties. Thus, SES and not race is the primary sociological determinant of variation in the distribution of casualties. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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