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13 Armed Forces & Soc'y 9 (1986-1987)

handle is hein.journals/amdfcsad13 and id is 1 raw text is: The Military And the Family As Greedy Institutions MADY WECHSLER SEGAL University of Maryland An institution is a set of interrelated norms and roles governing some area of social life. The study of military families involves analysis of how two societal institutions-the mlitiifii dtheimily-intersect. Bioih make great demand fo indivaduals in terms of commitnments, loy- alty, time, and_enefgy_. they therefore have some of the characteristics of what Coser calls greedy institutions. This paper contends that, due to various social trends in American society and in military family patterns, there is greater conflict now than in the past between these two greedy institutions. Further, the ways in which they respond to this competition for the service member's com- mitment are already affecting and will to continue to affect how far the military moves in an institutional or occupational direction, as described by Moskos.2 However, there can be changes within the traditional military institution without the military becoming less institutional and more occupational in Moskos' sense of these terms. AUTHOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this paper was prepared for a conference on Institu- tional and Occupational Trends in Military Organization held at the Air Force Academy in June 1985. The Air Force provided support for that conference to Northwestern University. 1 appreciate the helpful comments made on that draft by Norman Goodman, Nicholas A. Jans, Franklin D. Margiotta, James A. Martin, Charles C. Moskos, Joseph M. Rothberg, David R. Segal, and H. Wallace Sinaiko. ARMED FORCES & SOCIETY, vol. 13 No. 1, Fall 1986 9-38 ©1986 by the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 1986 Fall 19 Digitized from Best Copy Available

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