Race, ethnicity, and nation are not entities in the world but ways of seeing the world. They are ways of understanding and identifying oneself, making sense of one’s problems and predicaments, identifying one’s interests, and orientating one’s actions. They are ways of recognizing, identifying, and classifying other people, of constructing sameness and difference, and of “coding” and making sense of their actions.
Dr. Ezra Kopelowitz is a sociologist specializing in the intersection of technology, knowledge management and organizational development for non-profits. He is CEO of Research Success Technologies, and former director of research at the Department of Education of the...
Read the accompanying article, "A Guide to Jewish Peoplehood" here. Where there is certainty about the meaning of Jewish life, the concept of Jewish Peoplehood is not used as an organizing concept. For example, for Jews on the right of the religious Jewish spectrum,...
