Moshe Lissak

Moshe Lissak , also Moshe Lissak , ( Hebrew משה ליסק; born on 1928 in Tel Aviv ; died July 10, 2018 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli sociologist . He is considered the founder of military sociology in Israel.

Life

Moshe Lissak, son of Gershon and Chava Lissak's marriage, grew up in a kibbutz . He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sociology and was to conduct research at the University of Chicago (1961-62), the Harvard University and Oxford University in 1963 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem doctorate . After working as a lecturer (1964–1968) and senior lecturer (1968–1974), he was appointed associate professor of sociology in 1974 . In 1978 he became a professor. Since his retirement in 1996 he held the "Sarah Allen Shain Chair for Sociology" in Jerusalem.

Act

Lissak's main research interests were ethnic groups, civil-military cooperation , political sociology and the consequences of immigration .

In 1979 he was awarded the " Ruppin Prize" and in 1992 the Israel Prize , the highest award of the State of Israel, in the social sciences category for his sociological research. In 2007 he received the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award .

Fonts (selection)

• Social Mobility in Israel Society , Transaction Publishers 1969, ISBN 0-87855-176-X
• Inner Dualism: Outcome of the Center-periphery Relationship During Modernization Processes in Uganda , Sage 1973, ISBN 0-8039-0366-9 , together with Baruch Kimmerling
• Military Roles in Modernization: Civil-military Relations in Thailand and Burma , Sage 1976, ISBN 0-8039-0436-3
• Israeli Society and Its Defense Establishment: The Social and Political Impact of a Protracted Violent Conflict , Frank Cass Publishers 1984, ISBN 0-7146-3235-X
• Comparative Social Dynamics: Essays in Honor of SN Eisenstadt , Westview 1985, ISBN 0-86531-633-3 , together with Uri Almagor, Erik Cohen
• Trouble in Utopia: The Overburdened Polity of Israel , State Univ. New York 1989, ISBN 0-7914-0114-6 , with Dan Horowitz

literature

• Lissak, Moshe . In: Michael Berenbaum , Fred Skolnik (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Judaica . Volume 13, 2nd Edition, Macmillan Reference, Detroit 2007, p. 82.
• Yagil Levy : The Sociological Heritage of Moshe Lissak: The Bi-Directional Utilization of a Conceptual Framework . In: Israel Studies 13 (2008) 2, pp. 164–175.

Web links

• Moshe Lissak at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem