Jewish Identities in Action: An Exploration of Models, Metaphors, and Methods

Autor/inn/en	Charme, Stuart; Horowitz, Bethamie; Hyman, Tali; Kress, Jeffrey S.
Titel	Jewish Identities in Action: An Exploration of Models, Metaphors, and Methods
Quelle	In: Journal of Jewish Education, 74 (2008) 2, S.115-143 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-4113
Schlagwörter	Jews; Research Methodology; Models; Ethnicity; Self Concept; Longitudinal Studies; Context Effect + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Analogiemodell; Ethnizität; Selbstkonzept; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	"Jewish identity" has been a central concern both in the realm of research about American Jewry and to American Jewish educational programming, but what it means and how to best study it have come under question in recent years. In this article, four scholars describe the ways they understand Jewish identity among American Jews and how they study it. Together, they avoid defining the content of Jewish identity in specific normative/prescriptive terms because this unnecessarily flattens and delimits the ways people experience being Jewish. Instead they seek to expand the kinds of analytic questions and research methodologies in ways that that permit descriptive and non-evaluative conceptualizations, viewing Jewish identities as emerging from the complex interplay of "Jewishness" in the environment with other aspects of the self, and its longitudinal and cross-contexts. (Contains 2 figures and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10