largely due to a basic feature of Chinese society, which has had no dominant religion in its long history. Confucianism is not so much a religion as it is a system of political thought and socio-cultural norms. It does not have religious regulations in the
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Wang Zhen, Alfred Tovias, Peter Bergamin, Menachem Klein, Tally Kritzman-Amir, and Pnina Peri
Two Patterns of Modernization
An Analysis of the Ethnic Issue in Israel
Shlomo Fischer
disparity in academic achievement. The children of immigrants from Romania and Poland fit the Ashkenazi norm, whereas the achievements of second-generation Iraqi and Egyptian immigrants were closer to those of Jews from Yemen, Morocco, and Iran, which were
The New Economic Policy of 1962
How Israeli Economists Almost Changed the Israeli Economy
Ronen Mandelkern
political agents who persistently promote their policy ideas and programs. When the moment is ripe, they attempt to set the political agenda by framing their policy proposals as matching prevalent norms and beliefs and coupling them with mounting policy
Paula Kabalo
socially disempowered groups in the 1950s and 1960s: the Arab citizenry and inhabitants of the peripheral neighborhoods of Tel Aviv–Jaffa. Underlying the study is the view of ‘particularistic’ associations as instruments for the shaping of democratic norms
Naomi Chazan, Morad Elsana, Ian S. Lustick, Sam Lehman-Wilzig, Gideon Rahat, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Daphne Inbar, and Oren Barak
, which, the authors argue, is the norm in the IDF—and by the same military toward the Palestinians in the ‘territories’ as part of Israel’s lingering occupation. Indeed, as the authors compellingly argue, both types of violence are not only closely
Noa Hazan and Avital Barak
their viewers. Visual documents can therefore expand the historical and ideological perspective of periods and places where ambiguity exists concerning foundational values, norms, or the conceptual world of a particular population. In light of these, one
Mor Cohen
it comes to the ways in which art can interfere with the order of things—meaning that we perceive reality through sets of norms, laws, and actions—Rancière notes the potential for establishing an aesthetic community. Such a community is formed as
Uzi Meshulam and the ‘Mishkan Ohalim’ Affair
The Influence of Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy
Motti Inbari
violating Halakhic norms—Meshulam claimed (falsely) to have done military service in the celebrated Israel Defense Forces (IDF) general staff commando unit ( sayeret matkal ) and to have made a “daring” foray into the state archives. In his hands, he told
Fifty Years of Drama on Israeli Children’s Television
From Teaching to Competing
Yuval Gozansky
discourse and norms. Plot resolutions, often reached with the help of Matti, the class’s open and attentive educator, consistently epitomized ‘proper conduct’, as it was normatively perceived by the government or what Louis Althusser ( [1971] 2014 ) has
Assaf Shapira
–2006 .” [In Hebrew.] Sociologia Israelit 10 ( 2 ): 339 – 379 . Rhodes , Sybil , and Arus Harutyunyan . 2010 . “ Extending Citizenship to Emigrants: Democratic Contestation and a New Global Norm .” International Political Science Review 31 ( 4