FOREIGN MILITARY MISSION AS A SOCIALIZATION’S ENVIRONMENT FOR SOLDIERS

Authors

  • Maciej Kokociński Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
  • Marek Pawlak National Defence University in Warsaw

Keywords:

social participation, cross-cultural contacts, culture shock, socialization

Abstract

The basic aim of presented article is sociological diagnosis of social situation in which participants of foreign missions are found during tasks and challenges that they fulfill abroad. Challenges bound with military service among different culture provides to changes in individual fulfilling of social roles. This change can be defined as specific secondary socialization. After return to the homeland, soldiers re-define range and way of implementation the most important social roles (as a professionalists, a family members, among friends and closest neighbours) that are crucial in their everyday existence what can have a future result in different paterns of behavior and social interactions.

Published

2016-06-08

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