Continuity and Change
Continuity and Change
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USDIn this detailed 1978 study, Professor Rita J. Simon examines two significant ethnic communities in Israel: one of ultra-Orthodox Jews, and the other of Israeli Arabs. The Jews form a tiny but cohesive group with a strong sense of pride in their heritage and values. The Arabs, who comprise thirteen percent of the total population of Israel, occupy a politically and culturally sensitive position within that state. The author argues that despite these and obvious other cultural differences the two communities are akin in their separateness from the mainstream of Israeli society. She presents explanations of how and why both groups maintain cultural values and social patterns that prevent their assimilation into and acceptance by the broader society. Continuity and Change is significant as a study of contemporary social conditions in Israel, of sources of conflict within that society, as of implications that these conflicts have for the future.
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July 1978Paperback
9780521293181
194 pages
229 × 152 × 11 mm
0.3kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I:
- 1. The Jewish ultra-Orthodox and the urban Arab communities: theoretical and geographical comparisons
- 2. Social characteristics and research design
- 3. Selective institutions in the two communities
- Part II:
- 4. A profile of the ultra-Orthodox community in Mea Shearim
- 5. A profile of the urban Arab community in Israel
- 6. Sex role characteristics in the ultra-Orthodox family
- 7. Sex role characteristics in the urban Arab family
- 8. Sex and generational roles in the ultra-Orthodox family
- 9. Sex roles in the urban Arab family
- 10. Summary and conclusions: a look at the future
- Notes
- References
- Index.
