Sammy Smooha

Sammy Smooha
סמי סמוחה
Born1941 (age 84–85)
OccupationProfessor of Sociology
Known forConcept of ethnic democracy
Awards

Sammy Smooha (Hebrew: סמי סמוחה; born 1941) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa.

Biography

He is recipient of the Israel Prize. 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. Smooha contends that Israel is a model or archetypical ethnic democracy.

Books

References

  1. ↑ Ram, Uri. Israeli Nationalism: Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge, p. 63
  2. ↑ Biography Archived 2015-10-09 at the Wayback Machine (Hebrew)
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ S Smooha, Ethnic democracy: Israel as an archetype Archived 2017-03-09 at the Wayback Machine Israel, 1997