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THE SOCIOLOGY OF MILITARY SCIENCE:
Prospects for Postinstitutional Military Design
Dr. Chris Paparone, Bloomsbury, New York, 2013,
232 pages, $29.95

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aparone built on his earlier works to produce
a monograph that is described in several book
advertisements as offering “fresh sociological
avenues to become more institutionally reflexive.” The
premise of the monograph is that military knowledge
has been institutionalized to the point that the military
community is blind to viable alternative military design
methodologies. The monograph treats military organizations and military interventions as complex social
phenomena and uses sociology as the basis for further
inquiry with the purpose of answering the question:
“Can there be a variety of ontological, epistemological,
and methodological frames of reference for the de ͥ