Patterns of digital uses among Israeli Arabs – between citizenship in modern society and traditional cultural roots Sabina Lissitsa To cite this article: Sabina Lissitsa (2015) Patterns of digital uses among Israeli Arabs – between citizenship in modern society and traditional cultural roots, Asian Journal of Communication, 25:5, 447-464, DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2014.981555 To link to this articl...

Introduction One of the main objectives of this volume is to engage with the long lasting debate in sociology regarding the consequences of the industrialisation process for social mobility. At the heart of this debate is the so-called 'liberal thesis of industrialisation' which states that the industrialisation process brings about not only more opportunity for social mobility, but also more e...

The Israeli society is ethnically diverse and it is an ideal case for studying the role of rising inequality on the widening earnings gaps between dominant and subordinate groups. Earnings differences between Ashkenazi men—the dominant group in Israeli society—and the other major ethnic/gender groups in the Israeli labor market and society (Mizrahi men, Arab men, Ashkenazi women, and Mizrahi wo...

The state educational system in Israel reflects the declared character of the state as a ‘Jewish state’, and, consequently, the deep inter-group divisions in society, including a large Palestinian Arab minority. This study demonstrates how Israeli educational policy and curriculum are designed to support the Jewish nation-building project. As such, they silence the Palestinian Arab narrative wh...

Executive Summary: Amidst the intensified global focus on the ongoing conflict between the Israeli and Palestinian people, internal issues exist within each group. Cleavages exist within Israeli society both on a religious, socioeconomic, and even an ethnic level. These internal rifts play a role in preventing a peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. A case study evaluation of the Israeli...

this article analyses the effects of post-zionism in israeli ,society and state. by using the discoursive analysis in social theory, the author argues that discourses such as post-zionism are the results of socio-political and economic conditions (processes), but their evolution is basically the result of the mental and value activities of their proponent, rather than the socio-political proces...

Israel presents a unique opportunity to study the role of socio-cultural parameters in the development of mental disturbances because of the exceptional diversity of the Israeli society. In the present review, we aimed to analyse the current state of disordered eating in Israel by means of an extensive literature review. The following are the main findings of our review: The frequency of malada...

The Israeli State recently announced that it may begin to use genetic tests to determine whether potential immigrants are Jewish or not. This development would demand a rethinking of Israeli law on the issue of the definition of Jewishness. In this article, we discuss the historical and legal context of secular and religious definitions of Jewishness and rights to immigration in the State of Is...

It is often argued, both in popular and academic literature, that there are two Israels: one religious, benighted and anti-democratic and the other secular, Western and liberal. The fact that this account dominates public discourse in Israel tells us a great deal, but the account itself tells us little about Israeli society. Actually, the most telling fault line in Israeli society lies between ...