| Titre | Les attitudes envers le métier militaire chez les sous-officiers de l'Armée de l'Air | |
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| Auteur | Etienne Schweisguth | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1975, 16-4 | |
| Page | 485-515 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Etienne Schweisguth : Noncommisssioned Air Force Officers' Attitude about Military Careers.
The present study results from empirical research using noncommissioned officers in the French Air Force as subjects. The problem is to know whether these officers, who for the most part execute technical duties, have a certain « military mentality » characterized by their adherence to certain values. An analysis of nondirective interviews leads to the conclusion that the notion of « military mentality » has less to do with a value system which orients the subjects' actions than with a set of symbolic elements that the military institution values. The members of the institution are to recognize the legitimacy of these elements. A questionnaire has served to measure the non commissioned officiers' attitudes about the military. A multivariate analysis brings out two dimensions designated as « military mentality », which means a positive attitude with respect to the military as regards elements of this latter's symbolic system, and « professional mentality », which involves negative attitudes towards the military with regards to constraints that the latter implies. Although negatively correlated, these two dimensions are not simply opposites. The professional mentality depends neither on the subjects' sociocultural backgrounds nor on their positions in the Air Force. It mainly comes from their individual personalities, and is linked to the intention of having a short career and to a lack of satisfaction with the military. On the contrary, the military mentality is all the higher whenever the sociocultural level is low and the position in the Air Force is less advantageous. It springs, at least in part, from the phenomena of socialization and rationalization. It does not however reduce to a simple, conformist adherence to the military's symbolic system. It corresponds to an attitude which orients these officers towards long careers, which creates satisfaction with the military, and which is capable, if need be, of opposing determinants of an economic order. Although its effects are generally less strong than those of the professoral mentality, it is nonetheless remarkable that valuing the army as such manifests itself in this group which, by the way, is very close to a population of workers in the civilian sector. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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