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...problem comes," says Sociologist Chaim Adler, "when the child from the 'Oriental' family looks at his peer. The two serve together in the army as equals. But then one goes to work, while the other goes to the university. The son from the uncultured home forgets that his family used to live in a tent and now lives securely in an apartment. He only sees the son of the cultured home who is living three times better than he, and he wants the same...
...more pressing conflict must be resolved before the Sabras' dreams can be realized. "The main issue of the next few years," says Sociologist Adler, "is the question of peace and war, of our coexistence with our Arab neighbors." Adler poses a whole set of dilemmas that thoughtful Israelis have debated without resolving: "Should we employ Arabs in Israel? Or should we put up artificial walls, refuse to hire them and fall back on our own labor? If coexistence means using Arab labor, then what does that do to the fabric of our society? Should we not seek more ties...
...blur the fine edge of moral responsibility and idealism. Biblical Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, a former army Chief of Staff, concedes that one of Israel's greatest challenges is to secure the nation's spiritual imperatives while at the same time trying to preserve its physical existence. Sociologist Ferdynand Zweig puts the matter in a different way: "The contest between the mystique of violence and the mystique of redemption is the most fateful and crucial conflict on which the future of Israeli society depends...
Lipset is a leading American sociologist, particularly in the fields of political sociology and political behavior research. He has won numerous awards for his books, notably for Political Man and The Politics of Unreason...
NEWMAN MOST SEVERELY criticizes projects designed according to aesthetic and "compositional" considerations. "Beauty" predominated over both the functional demands of the urban framework and the lifestyle of tenants. In attacking this approach, Newman combines functional considerations with sociological analysis. However sound his design theories may be, he is no sociologist. A few undeveloped digressions into the "root causes" of social ills do more to detract from than to strengthen his theories of defensible space...