CiNii Books - The changing agenda of Israeli sociology : theory, ideology, and identity

This study explores the changing agenda of Israeli sociology by linking content with context and by offering a historically informed critique of sociology as a theory and as a social institution. It examines, on the one hand, the general theoretical perspectives brought to bear upon sociological studies of Israel and, on the other, the particular social and ideological persuasions with which these studies are imbued. Ram shows how the agenda of Israeli sociology has changed in correlation with major political transformations in Israel: the long-term hegemony of the Labor Movement up to the 1967 war; the crisis of the labor regime following the 1973 war; and the ascendance of the right wing to governmental power in 1977. Three stages in Israeli sociology, corresponding to these political transformations, are identified: the domination of a functionalist school from the 1950s to the 1970s; a crisis in the mid-1970s; and the profusion of alternative and competing perspectives since the late 1970s. Ram concludes with a plea for a new sociological agenda that would shift the focus from nation building to democratic and egalitarian citizenship formation. This book offers the first systematic and comprehensive overview of sociological thought in Israel, and by doing so offers a unique interpretation of the social and intellectual history of Israel.

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List of Tables Prologue Chapter 1 Introduction: Content in Context Chapter 2 Paradigm, Crisis, Revolution: The Trajectory of Israeli Sociology The Three Phases of Israeli Sociology: A Post-Kuhnian Trajectory The External Social Determinant: History, Politics, and Sociology The Internal Social Determinant: Higher Education and Sociology Chapter 3 The Nation-Building School: Functionalism The Theoretical Framework: System Modernization, Nation-Building The Israeli Nation-Building Process:"Pioneers" to "Masses" The Dynamics of Nation-Building: Growth Differentiation, Institutionalization The Mizrahi Immigration: Desocialization and esocialization Science and Politics: Sociology in the Service of the State's Elite Summary and Critical Appraisal Chapter 4 The Vicissitudes of a Paradigm: Functionalism Revised and Revisited Revised Functionalism: Objective Versus Subjective Integration Revisited Functionalism: Modernization Reversed Revised Functionalism: Micro-Level Modification Revision and Revisitation: Meso-Level Modification Status Quo Politics, Status Quo Sociology Summary and Critical Appraisal Chapter 5 The Shadowy Side of Politics: Elitism The Context of Emergence: Ups and Downs of the Elite The Theoretical Framework: Conflict and Elites The Power Elite: Rise and Fall of an Oligarch From "Red" to "Brown": The Rise of the Right Politics: Neither Left nor Right Summary and Critical Appraisal Chapter 6 Beyond the Melting Pot: Pluralism The "Second Israel": The Recognition of the "Social Disparity" The Theoretical Framework: "Heterogeneity in the Broadest Sense" Israel: Three Modes of Incorporation Arabs in Israel: Palestinian Israelis? Democratic Pluralism: The Politics of lntergroup Accommodation Summary and Critical Appraisal Chapter 7 Developed to Be Underdeveloped: Marxism Radical Sociology: Its Emergence in Israel Critical Sociology: Between "Science" and "Ideology" From Socialism to Etatism: The Turn Towards Militaristic Nationalism The Mizrahi Predicament: The Development of Underdevelopment Marxist Politics: "A Second Zionist Revolution" Chapter 8 Telling an Untold Tale: Feminism New Movement: Feminism Comes to Israel New Scholarship: Feminism in Academia Three Feminist Perspectives: Liberal, Marxist, and Radical Feminist Sociology: Three Emerging Modalities Feminist Politics: Equity, Equality, Empowerment Summary and Critical Appraisal Chapter 9 "A Late Instance of European Overseas Expansion:" Colonization The Frontier Reopened: New and Old Settlers The Blinders of National Sociology: The Dualist Approach Frontier and Territory: A Weberian Variation Colony and Labor: A Marxist Variation Political Underpinnings: The Territorial Partition Option Summary and Critical Appraisal Chapter 10 Conclusion: Sociology in Society Epilogue: Towards a Post-Zionist Sociology Bibliography Index

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