This is what we came up with during the exercise...
Melting-pot
Unit of analysis:
Intra Jewish relations in Israel
Yes:
- Everyone has a say
- International view Israel as a unified Jewish community
No:
- No group is willing to make concessions to become more like other groups
- Extremely stratified, divisive; between Jews, excluding Arabs
- External actors
Pluralist
Unit of analysis:
Intra Jewish relations and Arab Jewish relations and secular-religious relations
Yes:
- Seems to represent the principle cleavages in Israeli society
- Distribution of power between ethnic groups
No:
- Intra Arab relations
- Gender
- External actors
Class/Ethnicity
Unit of analysis:
Intra Jewish relations in Israel between Ashkenazim and Oriental
- Economic-ideological
Yes:
- Economic Jewish structural divisions
- Ideological division (Ashkenazi more secular )
No:
- Internal divisions within these two groups as well
- Secular-religious division is now more important (unitary view of the communities) esp. settler movement
Jewish-Arab relations
- Economic political
- External actors
Yes:
- Economic Arab-Jewish institutional divisions
No:
- Unitary view of Arabs
- External actors
Multi-melting pot
Unit of analysis:
Israeli “ethnic” relations
Yes:
- Fills the ethnic “gaps”
- Address the globalization of culture
No:
- Leaves out religious relations
- External actors (Iraq, Iran, US)
Post-multi-melting pot (This is a theory our group created to address minor gaps in the Multi-melting pot theory.)
Unit of analysis: Israeli global-socio-political relations (including ethnicity, religion, gender, ideology, class relations, culture, etc.)
Yes: See above
No: See above
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