Whereas traditional criminological theories treat juvenile delinquency largely as a reactive and expressive behavior that only seldom leads to specialized criminal offending or a criminal career, this article proposes an alternative classification of offenses that accounts for the difference between youthful reactive conduct and specialized…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess to what extent social groups maintaining traditional-collectivistic or modern-individualistic lifestyles while sharing a similar nationality ethnicity and cultural origin, may be differentiated on the basis of their professional job perceptions and attitudes. Design/methodology/approach:…

All languages encode aspects of culture and every culture has its own specificities to be proud of and to be transmitted. The papers in this book explore aspects of this relationship between language and culture, considering issues related to the processes of internationalization and localization of the English language. The volume is divided into…

The author discusses how the transformation in women's lives brought about by modernization affects the typical cultural response of a women to various aspects of middle age. (Author/AS)

The report describes a study of the sex ratios in learning disabilities among 305 Israli children in kindergarten, second grade, and fifth grade which found no gender differences in reading disability cases. Contrary findings of an apparent sex-linked component of learning disabilities among U.S. children are examined. (CL)

Economic and technological processes of globalization and the increasing migrations of people in the world undermine dominant national identities. One of the main characteristics of our time is the instability of identities and the continuous invention of new/old identities. Traditions and ethnic identities are deconstructed and reconstructed.…

The revival, spread, and modernization of Hebrew, the maintenance of other languages, and variation within modern Hebrew are discussed. Courses in sociolinguistics are described, followed by a bibliography of sociolinguistics in Israel. (RM)

A Hebrew translation of the Wechsler Preschool Primary Scale of Intelligence was administered to 1072 Israeli-born children aging 4-6 1/2 years. First generation Oriental children performed relatively lower, but the gap between second-generation Israeli children of Oriental and Western origin is notably diminished. (Authors)

Examines the potential conflict between an explicit educational manifesto and the implicit, dominant cultural resources that may interfere with the actualization of the manifesto, illustrating, through the qualitative analysis of an educational activity involving Israeli high school students, the dynamics by which an educational manifesto can be…

Rosenak has shown that contemporary Jewish education must negotiate the tension between relevance and authenticity. For those who embrace authenticity as a goal, education is often mediated through heroes--who are ideal cultural types. Such education is hampered by the diminution of heroes in contemporary culture: The hero has been replaced by the…

Israel is viewed as an immigrant society in which Veterans and newcomers share similar aging problems. In addition, elderly newcomers must adjust to a new language and social system. (SD)

Compared overall rates of completed suicide between Israel and selected European and North American countries. Found that rates for Israel were generally lower. Also compared suicide among different national-religious groups in Israel. Found rates were higher for Jews than for Muslim minority. Attempts to explain findings. (Author/NB)

Investigates gender differences in confidence judgments when they were correct and incorrect on exam items with postsecondary students (N=551) in five countries. Large and significant differences were found in overall confidence, confidence when correct, and confidence when wrong, associated primarily with country and culture. In contrast, gender…

This ethnographic study obtains first-hand information on spousal abuse from Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. Data include 23 interviews with male and female immigrants of various ages and 10 professionals who worked with this community as well as observations and documents. The findings, verified by participants, show that during cultural…

This ethnographic study expands educational anthropologists' knowledge of the relationship between higher education and personal and social change in so-called traditional societies. It describes transitions in the status of Druze women in Israel brought about by the first women from the community to obtain higher education, granting new insights…