The Committed: Preliminary Reflections on the Impact of the Kibbutz Socialization Pattern on Adolescents

Kahane, Reuven

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“…This occurs many times, but only in a few cases has it been institutionalized. The most salient examples are the kibbutz school in Israel (Kahane, 1975) and, to some degree, in English public schools (Weinberg, 1967). Further research is necessary to discover how such a fusion is possible.…”

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Informal Youth Organizations: A General Model*

Kahane

1975

Sociological Inquiry

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An attempt is made to construct an ideal type of informal youth organization having the following components: an active, expressive pattern of action, multi-dimensional patterns of performances, symmetric relationships among participants, a dual structure, and the principle of moratorium; all these are based on a high degree of voluntary participation. These components are related (in an organizational framework) to such outcomes as the generation of value commitment. the integration of various strata, and mediation between childhood and adulthood. The paper exposes a dilemma: how to semi-institutionalize these organizations in an attempt to diminish the risk of developing antisocial commitment and at the same time to preserve their unique properties.

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Section: Comparative Illustrationsmentioning

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Informal Youth Organizations: A General Model*

Kahane

1975

Sociological Inquiry

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“…Additional examples of the impact of informality on role development can be found in such highly informal socialization agencies as the 'children's society' in the kibbutz (Kahane, 1975b), youth movements (Shapira, et al 1979), and English public schools (Weinberg, 1967). Anthropological crosscultural studies also seem to substantiate our contention that informal associations and age groups influence processes of social maturation and role development during the transition to adulthood (Foner and Kertzer, 1978;Roberts, 1985;Stewart, 1972).…”

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“…'For the overall theoretical development of the concept of informal organization, see Kahane (1975aKahane ( , 1986. In constructing an informal code, we used the following sources: research material (e.g., Aries, 1962;Adler, 1962;Coleman, 1961;Eisenstadt, 1971;Gottlieb, et al 1966), autobiographies and diaries of youth leaders and participants in youth associations, youth movement program guides, newspapers, and journals, various documents concerned with the history of different youth movements and youth clubs (e.g., Baden-Powell, 1917;Laqueur, 1962;Shazker, 1969;Stachura, 1975), participant observations in various types ofactivities in informal frameworks.…”

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“…Extending the above approaches, one may suggest that informal socialization agencies have the potential to generate the transition in terms of role development in three directions: (a) adolescents master an increasing number of roles; (b) they familiarize themselves with an increasing number of types of roles; and (c) they differentiate between roles according to their main orientational (e.g., achievement vs. ascription) and institutional (e.g., economic vs. familial) contexts. In an attempt to specify the components of informal agencies and their impact on youth in terms of role development, an 'ideal type' of informal organization composed of seven independent structural components has been analytically constructed (Kahane, 1975a(Kahane, , 1986. '…”

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Informal Socialization Agencies and Role Development*

Rapoport¹,

Kahane²

1988

Sociological Inquiry

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The article hypothesizes that informal youth organizations influence processes of transition to adulthood by facilitating role development, that is, the conversion of child‐oriented roles into adult‐oriented ones. In an attempt to test the hypothesis, two variables were specified. Informality was defined in terms of seven organizational components: moratorium, symmetry, dualism, multiplexity, expressive instrumentalism, voluntarism, and pragmatical symbolism. The impact of these components on role development was measured by three indicators: Role Scope, Role Types and Role Aspects. Residential summer camps served as a quasi‐experimental laboratory for the research. A positive significant relationship was found between the level of informality and level of role development, especially in the long run. Findings are explained by the particular experiences youth undergo in informal socialization contexts, in which trial and error behavior, balanced reciprocity, and normative ambivalencies are institutionalized.

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“…At the apex of the Cold War, the kibbutz was perceived as an ideal that other societies should learn from: a true meeting ground between individualism and communal life (Etzioni, 1996;Kahane, 1975a). The general theoretical problem in kibbutz studies was to explain the continuity of utopian communities, namely 'the analysis of the processes of differentiation and "routinization" in a revolutionary and collective movement' (Weintraub, 1963: 11).…”

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Israel and the Exile of Intellectual Caliber

Yair¹,

Apeloig

2006

Sociology

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Jews have played a decisive role in the history of sociological theory. Paradoxically, Israeli sociologists -who came from similar Jewish social backgrounds, and shared the same intellectual traditions -have not left a mark on general sociological discourse. This study sets out to solve this paradox and explain why Israeli sociologists have had a negligible impact on the development of general sociological theories. Israeli sociologists have proved to play no significant role in the development of general sociological theory because they exhibited a specific mode of thought: (a) their theoretical questions were contextual; (b) their cognitive interest was to solve practical problems; (c) their theoretical perspective reflected national priorities; and (d) they exhibited a fragmented mode of thought.The article argues that the extreme local position of Israeli sociologists in the collective Zionist project propelled them to adopt the aforementioned intellectual features and therefore marginalized their contribution to general sociological theory.

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The Committed: Preliminary Reflections on the Impact of the Kibbutz Socialization Pattern on Adolescents

Cited by 15 publications

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Informal Youth Organizations: A General Model*

Informal Youth Organizations: A General Model*

Informal Socialization Agencies and Role Development*

Israel and the Exile of Intellectual Caliber

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