%0 Journal Article
%T Life Aboard an Armed-Guard Ship
%J American journal of sociology
%D 1946
%A Berkman, Paul L.
%V 51
%N 5
%P 380-387
%X In port an armed-guard ship, divorced of its primary function, becomes unorganized and tends to lose its shipshape character; a "scattering-ashore" process begins. The ship, devoid of men and with social interaction reduced to a minimum thereby, disintegrates as a social unit. Under way, with routine duties and collective expectations re-established, the ship assumes a social identity through the development of group solidarity and integration. A landlubber, thrust into this situation, becomes a sailor in a context of shipboard discourse, rough weather and the development of sea legs, informal initiatory ritual, standing watches, general quarters, and the imminence of enemy attack.<p />
%G 
%I University of Chicago Press
%@ 0002-9602
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/219847