Gwynne Dyer’s 1985 book, War: Past. Present, and Future, explores a person learning new social values, norms, and behaviors instituted by other cultures and subcultures. He focuses primarily on the basic training that Marine recruits experience at Parris Island and how they must transition from the background and history they originally developed from to a new one.
The recruits are placed in an isolated location away from civilization but are still expected to maintain social interactions with the group of recruits they have enlisted with. This is a concept of total institution that the drilling instructors employ to create a cohesive group that can cooperate fluidly on the battlefield. As a result, basic training transforms a boy into a man;
The recruits are placed in an isolated location away from civilization but are still expected to maintain social interactions with the group of recruits they have enlisted with. This is a concept of total institution that the drilling instructors employ to create a cohesive group that can cooperate fluidly on the battlefield. As a result, basic training transforms a boy into a man;