Judah MatrasJudah Matras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at Carleton University, Ottawa, and at the University of Haifa. He holds degrees in Statistics (B.Sc.) and in Sociology (M.A. and Ph.D.) from the University of Chiago, and has had Visiting Professor appointments at the University of Chicago; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; the University of Washington, Seattle; the Max Planck-Institute fur Bildungsforschung, Berlin; Harvard University; and Nuffield College, Oxford. Most of his research and publications were devoted to social inequality. stratification, and population studies, but in most recent teaching years he taught courses and seminars in the Sociology of Musics and has presented and published a number of research papers in this field. Read More Read Less