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44 Armed Forces & Soc'y 3 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/amdfcsad44 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Armed Forces & Society 2018, Vol. 44(1) 3-24 © The Author(s) 2017 Conceptuahizng the Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Spectrum of the DOI: 10.1177/0095327X17701894 journals.sagepub.com/homne/afs Bereavement Discourse @SAGE Yagil Levy' Abstract This article presents the spectrum of the bereavement discourse, namely, how various social groups interpret the loss of their children's lives or the potential risk to their lives posed bytheir military service and translate it into public discourse, as a spectrum of attitudes. It is argued that this spectrum ranges from subversive to submissive approaches. Furthermore, within the confines of the declining casualty tolerance, two variables cumulatively determine the actors' choice of discourse: the level of enforcement of recruitment, ranging from conscription to voluntary recruitment, and the social position of the group to which the agents belong. Given that conscription brings powerful, high-status groups into the ranks who may be unwilling to make sacrifices for war, subversive responses are more likely to occur in conscript militaries than in volunteer forces and vice versa. This article maps this spectrum and hypothesizes about its determinants. Keywords bereavement discourse, casualty sensitivity, collective action This article presents the spectrum of the bereavement discourse, namely, how var- ious social groups interpret the loss of their children's lives or the potential risk to their lives posed by their military service and translate this interpretation into public Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, Israel Corresponding Author: Yagil Levy, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel, P.O. Box 808, Ra'anana 43107, Israel. Email: yagil.levy@gmail.com

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