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pt. 1. Institution versus occupation. Introduction -- Institutional and occupational trends in Armed Forces -- At the cutting edge of institutional and occupational trends : the U.S. Air Force Officer Corps -- The institutional organization model and the military -- The social psychology of military service and the influence of bureaucratic rationalism -- pt. 2. Issues in the American military. The military and the family as greedy institutions -- Sex roles in the military -- Race relations in the military -- Value formation at the Air Force Academy -- pt. 3. Comparative perspectives. Great Britain -- Federal Republic of Germany -- France -- Australia -- The Netherlands -- Greece -- Switzerland -- Israel -- pt. 4. Institution versus occupation reconsidered. Institution building in an occupational world.