Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 104995 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nachman Ben-Yehuda |
| PRENOMES | Nachman |
| SOBRENOME | Ben-Yehuda |
| ASSINATURA | BEN-YEHUDA N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5096-4292 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 226 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Six Decades of Media Routinizing Exaggerations Concerns and Fears
Comparing police crime-rates to newspaper reports for a period of over six decades this reasearch first examined crime reporting in the media. Second, it confirmed what we know: location of crime news in the paper (front page, center), reports length, tone, choice of words, gender, race or class issues. Third, it suggests a new challenging insight. Rather than have periodic, discrete crimereports, waves or moral panics, the data indicate that the…
Kubrick on Crime and Deviance
Deviance, Moral Boundaries And
Deviance and reactions to it define cultural moral boundaries. The origin of this idea and its implications are presented in this entry together with a few illustrations
Moral Panics
Moral panic refers to an exaggerated social reaction to what is typically constructed as a grave threat to an existing social order.
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Deviance
This chapter contains sections titled: What is Deviance? Some Contemporary Debates Enter Durkheim Implications of Durkheim's Ideas Deviance and Social Control Moral Entrepreneurship Moral Panics Deviance, Change, and Stability1 Politics and Deviance Political Deviance VS. Political Justice Political Trials and Judging Deviants Criminals as Heroes and Political Criminals Power and Morality in Regular Deviance Two Illustrations Cultural Criminology…
Perfect Heroes
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010, xix+282 pp., ISBN 978-0-299-23484-3 During World War II different British military intelligence organizations (sometimes
Theocratic Democracy
One social arena where cultural conflicts are played out is the media. This book examines more than 50 years of media reported unconventional and deviant behavior by the fundamentalist ultra-orthodox–Haredi-counter-cultural community in Israel. Haredi culture practices a “right of the people not to know” policy and under-reports infractions thus comparisons between Haredi and secular media tend to rely more on secular media. Haredi infractions ha…
Moral Panics
Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place.: Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sex slave" scare; Includes a new chapter on the media, curren…
Selective Remembrances
When political geography changes, how do reorganized or newly formed states justify their rule and create a sense of shared history for their people? Often, the essays in Selective Remembrances reveal, they turn to archaeology, employing the field and its findings to develop nationalistic feelings and forge legitimate distinctive national identities. Examining such relatively new or reconfigured nation-states as Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Russia…
Contextualizing Deviance Within Social Change and Stability, Morality, and Power
The paper analyses the professional and political challenges facing the sociological study of deviance. Drawing on the sociological formulations of Emile Durkheim, and using a number of empirical demonstrations, the paper suggests that the study and interpretation of non-conformist and deviant behavior be repackaged and reframed within social processes of change and stability. To do that, it is recommended to use the constructivist approach, emph…
Remember Amalek!”” Vengeance, Zealotry, and Group Destruction in the Bible According to Philo, Pseudo-Philo, and Josephus
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNachman Ben-YehudaNachman Ben-Yehuda, a professor of sociology at the Hebrew University, is the author of Betrayals and Treason (Westview Press, 2001) and Sacrificing Truth: Archaeology and the Myth of Masada (Prometheus Books/Humanity Books, 2002)
Terror, Media, and Moral Boundaries
The relationship between terror and its presentation in the media is examined. The process of presenting terror is characterized as a method of challenging, negotiating, and redrawing moral boundaries. On the one hand, examining the terror-media relationship in this fashion enables us to transcend issues involved in taking a stand regarding the contents of specific acts of terror. On the other hand, making a stand regarding the nature of terror r…
From Catastrophe to Power
In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was organized by Palestinian Zionists just after World War II. Events that captured the attention of the world, such as the Exodus affair in the summer 1947, are seen here in a strikingly new light.…
Betrayals And Treason
In Betrayals and Treason Nachman Ben-Yehuda identifies the universal structure of betrayals as the violation of trust and loyalty and charts the different manifestations and constructions of these violations, all within numerous cases across time, place, and cultures. Betrayals do not just lie in the eyes of the beholder, completely relative. While the very idea of betrayals is a social construct, underlying it is a universal structure of violati…
The Masada Myth
The Dominance of the External
The Masada Myth
Politic al Assassination Events as a Cross-cultural Form of Alternative Justice1
Criminals or deviants can be viewed as trying to exercise some form of social control via being involved in deviance and crime. Interpreted somewhat differently, the implication is that those deviating from the law or norms are involved in practicing an interesting form of doing justice. This paper explores the meaning of a specific form of a political deviant act-that of political assassinations-and conceptualized it as a particular form of soci…
Political Assassination Events as a Cross-cultural Form of Alternative Justice 1
The Masada Myth
Moral Panics
Moral Panics
Moral Panics
Society of fear
Bude’s leading concept is fear because it ‘is an issue that affects everyone’ (p. 1). Indeed it does. Throughout 11 chapters, averaging 10 pages each, Bude provides a thought provoking treatise on
Moral Panics
The European Witch Craze of the 14th to 17th Centuries
From the early decades of the 14th century until 1650, continental Europeans executed between 200,000 and 500,000 witches, 85% or more of whom were women. The character and timing of these executions and the persecutions which preceded them were determined in part by changed objectives of the Inquisition, as well as by a differentiation process within medieval society. The which craze answered the need for a redefinition of moral boundaries, as a…
Positive and negative deviance
While it is quite clear that there IS a theoretical and empirical accumulation of knowledge in the area of the sociological study of deviance which supports the viability of the notion of "positive deviance," it also seems that the overwhelming majority of sociologists of deviance reject this possible paradigmatic shift. Hence, the voices "pushing" this shift are generally quiet, typically hesitant and the debate is made on the margins of the acc…
The Masada Myth
The Sociology of Moral Panics
There are two alternative theoretical perspectives developed in the sociological study of a moral panic: the moral perspective and the interest perspective. Using as illustration a May 1982 national moral panic about drugs that occurred in Israel, this article argues that both perspectives must be used and integrated into one coherent model for a better and fuller sociological explanation of moral panics. The article provides a detailed account o…
Political Assassination Events as a Cross-cultural Form of Alternative Justice 1
Contextualizing Deviance Within Social Change and Stability, Morality, and Power
The paper analyses the professional and political challenges facing the sociological study of deviance. Drawing on the sociological formulations of Emile Durkheim, and using a number of empirical demonstrations, the paper suggests that the study and interpretation of non-conformist and deviant behavior be repackaged and reframed within social processes of change and stability. To do that, it is recommended to use the constructivist approach, emph…
Gathering dark secrets, hidden and dirty information
Recentering the World
The various 'quests for meaning' of the 'decentralized' contemporary Western youths are interpreted as so many attempts to 'recenter the world' around new 'elective centers'. Rather than being centers of the contemporary world into which the individual is born, such centers are located outside it, and freely chosen by the seekers. Four such elective centers are discussed: (1) traditional religious conversion, (2) the occult, (3) science fiction, …
Terror, Media, and Moral Boundaries
The relationship between terror and its presentation in the media is examined. The process of presenting terror is characterized as a method of challenging, negotiating, and redrawing moral boundaries. On the one hand, examining the terror-media relationship in this fashion enables us to transcend issues involved in taking a stand regarding the contents of specific acts of terror. On the other hand, making a stand regarding the nature of terror r…
Politic al Assassination Events as a Cross-cultural Form of Alternative Justice1
Criminals or deviants can be viewed as trying to exercise some form of social control via being involved in deviance and crime. Interpreted somewhat differently, the implication is that those deviating from the law or norms are involved in practicing an interesting form of doing justice. This paper explores the meaning of a specific form of a political deviant act-that of political assassinations-and conceptualized it as a particular form of soci…
Deviance in Science
This paper presents and analyses various cases of deviance in science. The paper also examines those aspects of the structure and process of “doing science” which are conducive to deviance. The major conclusion is that deviance in science is badly represented by the old “bad apples” theory and that the “iceberg theory” probably describes this phenomenon more accurately, thus calling for a new criminology of science. The analysis details types of …
Problems Inherent in Socio-Historical Approaches to the European Witch Craze
Weber, Max Wood, Gordon S. 1958 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of 1972 The Creation of the American Republic, Capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner's 1776-1787. New York: W. W. Norton & Sons. Company, Inc. Wilson, John F. Ziff, Larzer 1969 Pulpit in Parliament: Puritanism During 1973 Puritanism in America: New Culture in a the English Civil Wars, 1640-1648. New World. New York: Viking Press. Princeton: Princeton University Press
The politicization of deviance
Using the Israeli case of Abu‐hatzira, this paper argues that processes of degradation, stigmatization and deviantization can be reversed. The case itself is documented to be followed by an interpretation clustered along two axes. It is argued, first, that Abu‐hatzira used in his favor an existing ethnic dispute in Israel, coupled with a religious factor. Second, reversal of deviantization can be achieved by politicizing "regular" deviance, subse…
The Dominance of the External
Perfect Heroes
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010, xix+282 pp., ISBN 978-0-299-23484-3 During World War II different British military intelligence organizations (sometimes
Howard S. Becker
Political assassinations as rhetorical devices
Political assassinations constitute a specific form of violence intended to take someone else's life against that person's wish. The act of killing (the ‘event') is distinguished from the cultural interpretation given to that act (the ‘rhetorical device'). The essay examines the rhetorical device as a cultural artifact to construct and interpret the deliberate serious attempt(s) to kill a specific actor for political reasons having something to d…
Deviance and Moral Boundaries
Counter-Cultural Movements and Totalitarian Democracy
Talmon's concept of 'totalitarian democracy' is generalized, to make it applicable to the variety of counter-cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, we expanded Talmon's concept of political liberty into a more general desire for 'liberation,' offered in different forms by these movements. Accordingly, the movements are classified by two variables: the direction of liberation (inner or outer) to which they aspired, and the degre…
The Revival of the Occult and of Science Fiction
The European Witch Craze
Success and failure in rehabilitation
This research addresses itself to two problematic aspects of methadone maintenance: definition and measure of success of methadone rehabilitation programs and the location and prediction of those features which characterize patients successfully rehabilitated by such programs. For the first time, this research used a differentiated criterion to evaluate success, utilizing five different measures for its evaluation: consumption of methadone, consu…
The European Witch Craze of the 14th to 17th Centuries
From the early decades of the 14th century until 1650, continental Europeans executed between 200,000 and 500,000 witches, 85% or more of whom were women. The character and timing of these executions and the persecutions which preceded them were determined in part by changed objectives of the Inquisition, as well as by a differentiation process within medieval society. The which craze answered the need for a redefinition of moral boundaries, as a…
Witchcraft
Success and failure in rehabilitation
This research addresses itself to two problematic aspects of methadone maintenance: definition and measure of success of methadone rehabilitation programs and the location and prediction of those features which characterize patients successfully rehabilitated by such programs. For the first time, this research used a differentiated criterion to evaluate success, utilizing five different measures for its evaluation: consumption of methadone, consu…
Problems Inherent in Socio-Historical Approaches to the European Witch Craze
Weber, Max Wood, Gordon S. 1958 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of 1972 The Creation of the American Republic, Capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner's 1776-1787. New York: W. W. Norton & Sons. Company, Inc. Wilson, John F. Ziff, Larzer 1969 Pulpit in Parliament: Puritanism During 1973 Puritanism in America: New Culture in a the English Civil Wars, 1640-1648. New World. New York: Viking Press. Princeton: Princeton University Press
The European Witch Craze
Heroin, Deviance and Morality. Charles W. Lidz , Andrew L. Walker , Leroy C. Gould
Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th Century Massachusetts
Journal Article Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th Century Massachusetts, by Richard Weisman. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1984, xiv.+267 pp. $22.50 Get access Nachman Ben-Yehuda Nachman Ben-Yehuda Hebrew University and SUNY at Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 1985, Pages 475–476, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711169 Published:…
Sociological Reflections on the History of Science Fiction in Israel
The history of SF in Israel has been marked by “booms” (one in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s; another in 1978-81) followed by sharp declines. The how’s and why’s of the matter make for an interesting sociological puzzle. It might be supposed that the fortunes of SF in Israel correlate with periods of military adventurism or economic prosperity; but the first of these possibilities proves to be untenable, while the second is only a part-truth. Furt…
The Revival of the Occult and of Science Fiction
Deviance in Science
This paper presents and analyses various cases of deviance in science. The paper also examines those aspects of the structure and process of “doing science” which are conducive to deviance. The major conclusion is that deviance in science is badly represented by the old “bad apples” theory and that the “iceberg theory” probably describes this phenomenon more accurately, thus calling for a new criminology of science. The analysis details types of …
The Sociology of Moral Panics
There are two alternative theoretical perspectives developed in the sociological study of a moral panic: the moral perspective and the interest perspective. Using as illustration a May 1982 national moral panic about drugs that occurred in Israel, this article argues that both perspectives must be used and integrated into one coherent model for a better and fuller sociological explanation of moral panics. The article provides a detailed account o…
Israel Studies in Criminology, Volume 7
Deviance and Moral Boundaries
Recentering the World
The various 'quests for meaning' of the 'decentralized' contemporary Western youths are interpreted as so many attempts to 'recenter the world' around new 'elective centers'. Rather than being centers of the contemporary world into which the individual is born, such centers are located outside it, and freely chosen by the seekers. Four such elective centers are discussed: (1) traditional religious conversion, (2) the occult, (3) science fiction, …
Deviance and Moral Boundaries
Counter-Cultural Movements and Totalitarian Democracy
Talmon's concept of 'totalitarian democracy' is generalized, to make it applicable to the variety of counter-cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, we expanded Talmon's concept of political liberty into a more general desire for 'liberation,' offered in different forms by these movements. Accordingly, the movements are classified by two variables: the direction of liberation (inner or outer) to which they aspired, and the degre…
The politicization of deviance
Using the Israeli case of Abu‐hatzira, this paper argues that processes of degradation, stigmatization and deviantization can be reversed. The case itself is documented to be followed by an interpretation clustered along two axes. It is argued, first, that Abu‐hatzira used in his favor an existing ethnic dispute in Israel, coupled with a religious factor. Second, reversal of deviantization can be achieved by politicizing "regular" deviance, subse…
Deviance and Moral Boundaries
Conflict resolution in an underground group
Underground movements in a struggle for political independence experience processes of crystallization as well as schism. Many times, severe struggles develop in these groups and focus on issues of leadership, operations, and ideology. The success of these movements in achieving their explicit goals depends on their ability to develop an effective mechanism(s) for inner conflict(s) resolution(s). Such inner conflicts and tensions can change, in t…
Howard S. Becker
Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica
Corsica is associated in many people's minds with vendetta and banditry, but these phenomena have not been studied systematically. Using accounts by visitors and officials and particularly judicial records, this book provides such a study for the nineteenth century. Accounts of specific feuds lasting over many generations are given, including that which inspired Merimee's Colomba, and the whole phenomenon is set in its proper context of competiti…
Gathering dark secrets, hidden and dirty information
Political assassinations as rhetorical devices
Political assassinations constitute a specific form of violence intended to take someone else's life against that person's wish. The act of killing (the ‘event') is distinguished from the cultural interpretation given to that act (the ‘rhetorical device'). The essay examines the rhetorical device as a cultural artifact to construct and interpret the deliberate serious attempt(s) to kill a specific actor for political reasons having something to d…
Positive and negative deviance
While it is quite clear that there IS a theoretical and empirical accumulation of knowledge in the area of the sociological study of deviance which supports the viability of the notion of "positive deviance," it also seems that the overwhelming majority of sociologists of deviance reject this possible paradigmatic shift. Hence, the voices "pushing" this shift are generally quiet, typically hesitant and the debate is made on the margins of the acc…
The Politics and Morality of Deviance
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