Solidarity of Conscripts: Informal Cohesive Ties: Drafted Soldiers Enjoy Their "We-feeling"!

This book is about the informally working cohesive forces connecting the drafted man-power in the Turkish Armed Forces. (Service is compulsary for a specified term for all healthy male citizens). Esprit de corps, which is essential for high morale, can be achieved and sustained in a better and more effective manner, through traditional in-gdoup ties, rather than officially imposed norms or legitimate but coercive written codes. The spontaneous formation of the "we-feeling" thus created provides the best psychological support ever possible for the plain soldier, under harsh training conditions as well as real battle circumstances.

S.Çaya is associate-professor at Istinye University, in Istanbul. He has two sociology doctorate degrees (from Hacettepe University and METU). Besides full command of English, he reads French and German. His B.S. is in Chemical Engineering. His MBA is in Organizational Behavior. Çaya also has a teaching-certificate from Gazi University.