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10364 Stratification in Israeli Society: Ethnic, National and Class Cleavages 1

Credits: 6 advanced credits in Sociology and Anthropology

Prerequisites: 36 credits, including Introduction to Sociology and Trends in Israeli Society.2 Students must also fulfill all English requirements.

Recommended: Introduction to Macroeconomics; Research Methods in Social Sciences: Guiding Principles and Research Styles; Regression Analysis and Analysis of Variance.

The course examines the main characteristics of the structure of social stratification in Israel through articles collected in a two-volume reader. It opens with a historical perspective – the development of the structure of social stratification in Israel since the 1920s. Most of the articles discuss the central aspects of social stratification in contemporary Israel: economic inequality, occupational distribution and occupational prestige; aspirations to mobility, stratification models and ethnic boundaries; mechanisms that inhibit and facilitate mobility; the socio-economic background of elites in Israel; ethnic group, social class and political affinity; the geographic dimension of the ethnic-social class problem; women as a status group; the Arab sector; a theoretical discussion of the issue of ethnic stratification.

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1Students may write a seminar paper within the framework of this course, although it is not required. The paper may develop a topic of an expanded assignment, or any other topic approved by the course coordinator. A student who has not completed Social Stratification: Issues in Social Inequality may not write a seminar paper for this course. A student may only write a seminar paper for this course if the topic of the paper submitted in the course Social Stratification: Issues in Social Inequality did not relate to Israeli society.

2or Social Patterns in Israel (10239) which is no longer offered.