Discipline: Social
Sciences
Topic: Sociology
Trends in Israeli Society
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Edited by Ephraim Yaar and Zeev Shavit
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This two-volume collection of articles, each
written by a renowned expert in the field, examines, from a
socio-historical perspective, central aspects of the development of
Israel’s social reality from the end of the 19th century to the beginning
of the 21st century. It demonstrates the complexity of Israeli society and
the major rifts within it, through an analysis of the foci of agreement and
controversy regarding its collective (Jewish-Zionist) identity. It examines
the foci of tension and agreement in the institutional and group structure
of Israeli society.
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Volume 1: Historical
background: Zionist ideology and Yishuv society; Collective
identity in the Yishuv; Arab-Jewish relations in
Israel as a Jewish and democratic state; Immigration and absorption;
Inequality in Israeli society; Social and political economy (2001, 736 pp.,
cat. # 10495-1)
Volume 2: Political and legal culture in
Israel; Introduction to Israeli culture; Education in Israel; Mass media in
Israel; A multi-cleavage society; Change processes in the collective
identity (2003, 562 pp., cat. # 10495-2)
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Professor Ephraim Yaar, of the Department of Sociology and Social
Psychology at Tel Aviv University, is Head of the Tami Steinmetz Center for
Peace Research, Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Between Consent
and Dissent (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)
and Trends in Israeli Democracy: the Public's View (Lynne Rienner, 1992).
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Dr. Zeev Shavit is a member of the Department of Sociology,
Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel.
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