1. Introduction 2. A theoretical perspective: structural pluralism 3. Models of intergroup relations 4. Historical background 5. Current social contexts 6. Pluralism and inequality 7. Oriental–Ashkenazi inequality 8. Conflict and integration 9. Continuity and change 10. Conclusion
Biography
Sammy Smooha is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is a member of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and an Israel Prize laureate in Sociology. He served as a visiting professor and a senior research fellow at many academic institutes in the West. Smooha studies Israeli society in comparative perspective, with a focus on ethnic relations and democracy and has published widely on the internal divisions and conflicts in Israel.
Reviews of the first publication:
“…Sammy Smooha produces a carefully documented analysis of a viable political order confronted with major problems of integration and conflict.”
— Rozann Rothman, The Journal of Politics
“This is almost certainly the fullest, and in general the most reliable, discussion of this basic division in Israeli society that has yet appeared in English.”
— Bernard Wasserstein, International Affairs
