Abstract

AroundIntermediators (school of sociology) the mid-1990s two opposing processes took place simultaneously: on the one hand, explicit controversies flared up between mainstream sociologistsMainstream sociology and new critical sociologistsCritics (critical; school of sociology); on the other hand, a more tacit process of rapprochement took place between the two sides. An intermediaryIntermediators (school of sociology) position evolved and became a new sociological convention, that viewed Israel as a society afflicted by conflicts among “cleavagesCleavages (social),” or sectors. In 2015 Reuven RivlinRivlin, Reuven the president of the state, publicly adopted this line of thought and proclaimed the end of the “old social order,” based on a solid majority, and the beginning of a “new social order,” based on a concord between equally weighted minorities.