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- Title
Social Differentiation in Co-operative Communities.
- Authors
Talmon-Garbier, Y.; Morris, Ginsberg; Glass, D. V.; Marshall, T. H.
- Abstract
This article describes and analyzes the emergence of social differentiation in one type of Moshav-Ovdim or cooperative settlement in Israel. The Moshav is a cooperative organization of partly independent family units, each village comprising from 40 to 120 families. Most of the settlers are engaged in mixed intensive and mechanized farming. The Moshavim are organized into a country-wide movement, the organization of which is neither centralized nor highly coordinated. Though the constitution provides an outline of the structure of each village and sets down the main organizational principles, much scope is left for interpretation and variation. The communities differ, thus, both as to the degree of adherence to the constitutional principles and as to modes of interpreting them. The analysis of social differentiation in these cooperative communities seems to be relevant to further clarification of a few other basic theoretical problems. The basis of the established Moshav community is a partly independent family working on its family farm. The principles underlying the cooperation of these semi-independent limits as formulated in the constitution and as put into practice in the communities described here are: basic economic equality, public ownership of land, ban on hired labor, mutual aid, cooperative buying and selling.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; DIFFERENTIATION (Sociology); COOPERATIVE agriculture; COOPERATIVE societies; AGRICULTURAL contracts
- Publication
British Journal of Sociology, 1952, Vol 3, Issue 4, p339
- ISSN
0007-1315
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/586908