Sammy Smooha (Hebrew: סמי סמוחה; born 1941)[1] is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa.
Sammy Smooha | |
|---|---|
סמי סמוחה | |
| Born | 1941 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation | Professor of Sociology |
| Known for | Concept of ethnic democracy |
| Awards | |
Biography
editHe is recipient of the Israel Prize.[2] He specializes in comparative ethnic relations, and has researched the internal divisions in Israeli society, and the society of Israel in comparative perspective.
Smooha introduced the concept of Ethnic democracy, in a book published in 1989.[3] Smooha contends that Israel is a model or archetypical ethnic democracy.[4]
Books
edit- Index of Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel 2004. Haifa: The Jewish-Arab Center, University of Haifa; Jerusalem: The Citizens' Accord Forum between Jews and Arabs in Israel; Tel Aviv: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 2005.
- Autonomy for Arabs in Israel. Beit Berl: The Institute for Israeli Arab Studies, 1999, 143 pages. (Hebrew).
- Arabs and Jews in Israel. Vol. 2: Change and Continuity in Mutual Intolerance. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1992.
- Arabs and Jews in Israel. Vol. 1: Conflicting and Shared Attitudes in a Divided Society. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1989.
- The Orientation and Politicization of the Arab Minority in Israel. Haifa: The Jewish-Arab Center, University of Haifa, 1984.
- Israel: Pluralism and Conflict. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978.
References
edit- ^ Ram, Uri. Israeli Nationalism: Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge, p. 63
- ^ Biography (Hebrew)
- ^ Smooha, S. The model of ethnic democracy Archived 2010-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, European Centre for Minority Issues, ECMI Working Paper # 13, 2001, p. 24.
- ^ S Smooha, Ethnic democracy: Israel as an archetype Israel, 1997
