SOCI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wissenschaft Des Judentums, Marshall Sklare, Contemporary Jewry
15 Feb 2020
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Why a course on sociology of the jews: this course first offered in 1977, well over 3500 students, the emergency of the discipline, as a subset of jewish studies, see sklare article. Emergence from wissenschaft des judentums (german term- means the scientific study of jewishness: from religious approach to science re the bible, place in the academy. First came jewish studies, ajs 1969, then asssj. Academic journals part of area studies, multi disciplinary, not just sociology; anthropology, economics, demography, history, political science. Note: some classical sociologists have discussed jews and jewish related themes as well (marx , weber, durkheim, simmel). The jewish question- once the jews get civil rights and equality, what does it mean to be. How do you fit in to canada, us, france, etc, etc . Robert park, chicago school of sociology, and then louis wirth and his thesis/book, the. Note parks assimilationist model- immigrant minorities should and would assimilate.
