Towns In Israel Research Articles

Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments

A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currencies such as money, prestige, services, and patronage, stress the importance of the cultural component. All are solutions to the same structural problem. The solution characteristic of Arab Muslim society stems from the symbolic linking of the ruling hierarchy with the roles of the sexes; the male roles are the preserve of the elite, while the symbol of subjection to authority means effemination. Hypergamy implies that daughters, as representatives of lower strata, move upward. Elite groups are distinguished by the ability to do away with any payments, viz., to protect their daughters' modesty (by means of endogamy or leaving them unmarried) and to expose that of others' daughters by superior means. Exogamy, whose price is high, is required all the more under modern conditions. This is shown with data relating to sedentarized Bedouin and former peasants living in towns in Israel. Urbanization confuses primary groups and endogamic possibilities. New approaches for exploring marriage suggestions and for negotiating with strangers are required, and confusion of former hierarchies accelerates the process of restratification. Achievement replaces ascription, while former modes of conspicuous consumption are retained. Bride-price increases by 5.1 times in a decade, as measured by the increase in maximum (not average) price per annum compared with the increase in income. Cases establishing record sums for marriage expenses are examined in detail.

Development Towns in Israel: The Role of Community in Creating Ethnic Disparities in Labor Force Characteristics

This paper investigates the contribution of community to ethnic stratification is Israel. We show that "development towns," a category of new settlements established to achieve population dispersal and immigrant absorption, have influenced (a) the areal distributions of different ethnic (country-of origin) group, (b) the tendency for each group to be concentrated in certain industries, and (c) the occupational opportunities available to the members of an ethnic population. We also review the relevance of this analysis for understanding ethnic stratification in America.

An Economic Analysis of Migration in Costa Rica

Previous articleNext article No AccessAn Economic Analysis of Migration in Costa RicaManuel J. Carvajal, and David T. GeithmanManuel J. Carvajal Search for more articles by this author , and David T. Geithman Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 23, Number 1Oct., 1974 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/450772 Views: 36Total views on this site Citations: 17Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1974 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Zhen Liu, Shenghe Liu, Haoran Jin, Wei Qi Rural population change in China: Spatial differences, driving forces and policy implications, Journal of Rural Studies 51 (Apr 2017): 189–197.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.02.006David Carr Population and deforestation: why rural migration matters, Progress in Human Geography 33, no.33 (Jun 2009): 355–378.https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132508096031J. Edward Taylor, Philip L. Martin Chapter 9 Human capital: Migration and rural population change, (Jan 2001): 457–511.https://doi.org/10.1016/S1574-0072(01)10012-5Richard H. Adams The economic and demographic determinants of international migration in Rural Egypt, Journal of Development Studies 30, no.11 (Oct 1993): 146–167.https://doi.org/10.1080/00220389308422308Olivier Dabène Bibliografia, (Jan 1992): 391–434.https://doi.org/10.4000/books.cemca.2922Lawrence A. Brown, Janet E. Kodras Migration, Human Resource Transfers, and Development Contexts: A Logit Analysis of Venezuelan Data, Geographical Analysis 19, no.33 (Sep 2010): 243–263.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1538-4632.1987.tb00128.xLawrence A. Brown, Victoria A. Lawson Rural-destined migration in Third World settings: A neglected phenomenon?, Regional Studies 19, no.55 (Feb 2007): 415–432.https://doi.org/10.1080/09595238500185421Michael Whiteford The Social Epidemiology of Nutritional Status Among Costa Rican Children: A Case Study, Human Organization 44, no.33 (Sep 1985): 241–250.https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.44.3.q1k84574366808tqLawrence A. Brown, John Paul Jones Spatial Variation In Migration Processes And Development: A Costa Rican Example Of Conventional Modeling Augmented By The Expansion Method, Demography 22, no.33 (Aug 1985): 327–352.https://doi.org/10.2307/2061064Lawrence A. Brown, Victoria A. Lawson Migration in Third World Settings, Uneven Development, and Conventional Modeling: A Case Study of Costa Rica, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75, no.11 (Mar 2010): 29–47.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1985.tb00056.xRichard C. Jones, Lawrence A. Brown Cross-national tests of a third world development-migration paradigm: With particular attention to Venezuela, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 19, no.55 (Jan 1985): 357–361.https://doi.org/10.1016/0038-0121(85)90045-XPoonam Thapa, Dennis Conway Internal migration in contemporary nepal: Models which internalize development policies, Papers of the Regional Science Association 53, no.11 (Dec 1983): 27–42.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01939917 Fran Gillespie Comprehending the Slow Pace of Urbanization in Paraguay between 1950 and 1972, Economic Development and Cultural Change 31, no.22 (Oct 2015): 355–375.https://doi.org/10.1086/451325E Borukhov, E Werczberger Factors Affecting the Development of New Towns in Israel, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 13, no.44 (Apr 1981): 421–434.https://doi.org/10.1068/a130421Bruce Herrick, Barclay Hudson Spatial distribution of population and poverty, (Jan 1981): 13–30.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05315-5_2William J. House, Henry Rempel The determinants of interregional migration in Kenya, World Development 8, no.11 (Jan 1980): 25–35.https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X(80)90048-0Lorene Y.L. Yap The attraction of cities, Journal of Development Economics 4, no.33 (Sep 1977): 239–264.https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3878(77)90030-X

The Progress of New Towns in Israel

The Progress of New Towns in Israel

Book Reviews : New Towns in Israel: Urban and Regional Planning and Develop ment. Erika Spiegel. (In German and English. [English Trans lation by Annelie Rockwood.] N. Y.: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. $18.50.)

Book Reviews : New Towns in Israel: Urban and Regional Planning and Develop ment. Erika Spiegel. (In German and English. [English Trans lation by Annelie Rockwood.] N. Y.: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. $18.50.)

New Towns in Israel

New Towns in Israel

Spiegel, Erika, "Neue Stadte/New Towns in Israel" (Book Review)

Spiegel, Erika, "Neue Stadte/New Towns in Israel" (Book Review)