Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society
Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society
Stephen Sharot , Tel-Aviv University
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This book is a major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. The analysis of ethnicity focuses on the differences among Jews from different countries of origin (from Europe, North Africa and Asia), although there is also a chapter on Palestinian Arabs in Israel. This work takes the analysis of ethnic identities and relations much further than previous studies of Israeli society, and is the first to compare the importance of ethnicity with both religion and class and to illustrate the nature of the relationships between all three divisions. The combination of sophisticated theory and research advances the study of Israeli society in particular and the study of social cleavages and conflicts within society in general.
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December 2007Paperback
9780521046558
300 pages
228 × 153 × 18 mm
0.466kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Theoretical and Empirical Background:
- 1. Ethnicity and society
- 2. Divisions in Israeli society
- 3. Theoretical perspectives in Israeli sociology
- 4. The sample, its background and its setting
- Part II. Social Patterns and Behavior:
- 5. Neighborhoods: synagogues and neighborhood committees
- 6. Religiosity and secularization
- 7. Friendship networks
- Part III. Identities and Images:
- 8. Ethnic consciousness
- 9. Class consciousness
- 10. Religion, ethnic and class division: convergent or cross-cutting?
- Part IV. The Impact of Stratification:
- 11. Voting
- 12. Discrimination
- 13. Assimilation or ethnic solidarity?
- Part V. Social Cleavages: An Overview of Israeli Society and Some Theoretical Implications:
- 14. Cleavages among Jews
- 15. Jews and Arabs
- 16. Toward a theory of social cleavages
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index.
