Sociological Knowledge and Collective Identity: S. N. Eisenstadt and Israeli Society

ISBN-13: 9780367671044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 194 str.

Stavit Sinai

Opis

This book examines the relationships between sociology and projects of national identity construction, and presents a critique of Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, the prominent Israeli sociologist, known as the "father of Israeli sociology".

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Eisenstadt, Modern Imaginaries, and the Political Mythology of Zionism  Part I: The ‘Problem’ of Social Integration  2. Mediated Identity: Early Eisenstadt, the Zionist Utopia, and the Orientalist Gaze  Part II: Civilization  3. The Short Road from Antiquity to Modernity: The Jewish Past and Eisenstadt’s Civilizational Analysis  Part III: Modernities  4. The Jewish Democracy and Multiple Modernities  5. From Zionist to Radical Sociology

O autorze

Stavit Sinai is a scholar working in the field of sociology of knowledge, memory studies, and postcolonial critique. She earned her doctoral degree in the Department of History and Sociology at Konstanz University. Her paper, "Self and Otherness in Israeli Sociology" was awarded the Junior Scholar prize by the International Sociological Association (ISA, 2014). Other topics of scholarly interest include, inter alia, classical Greek philosophy. Sinai is also a human rights activist.