ABSTRACT
As part of a continuing effort to monitor political processes in several selected university communities, a questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of 500 students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in January 1970. As hypothesized, political alienation bears a strong negative relationship to conformist tendencies and significant positive relationships to the orientations of reformism, revolutionism and withdrawal. Alienated people do tend to be nonconformist in their orientations toward political activity, to be reformers or revolutionaries or to withdraw from political participation and involvement. Alienated reformers and retreatists, on the other hand, are both angry and comfortable with their anger; they are dissatisfied with being alienated and feel quite vulnerable to potential repercussions which might derive from their political behavior. Both reformers and retreatists feel politically vulnerable, but the reformer is more secure of his economic position than the retreatist.
