When men are inducted into the armed forces, they must make adjustments to the structure of activities and relationships of basic training. These are discussed in terms of the Army (1) as a hierarchy of command, (2) as a rigidly stratified society, (3) as a self-contained social world, and (4) as either socializing or isolating its members.
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Brotz et al. (1946) studied this question.
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