A functional analysis of the informal behaviour of military recruits and corporals.

The author spent three months during the summer of 1952 at a training camp with an infantry company of the Canadian Army. He spent most his time with the recruits in the company, watching them while they were training, drinking in the canteen, hanging around the hut, and resting between training periods. He went on a three-day leave with them, and carried his pack and tramped with the, on three different schemes