Abstract

The first Department of Sociology was formed, in Jerusalem, in 1948. It was first chaired by Martin BuberBuber, Martin, who ushered in his Jewish German romantic nationalist world view. In 1950 his heir was Shmuel Noah EisenstadtEisenstadt, Shmuel Noah, who ushered in the American modernization paradigmParadigm (scientific). Eisenstadt is crowned as the founding father of Israeli sociologyFounders (of Israeli sociology), which, between the 1950s and 1970s, was mostly concerned with the question of the integration of new immigrantsImmigration (immigrants) in the national mold.