ABSTRACT
Theoretically, studies containing larger, more randomly selected samples of students, and using objective measures, would be rather more free of the possibility of bias. Ever since their release from European ghettoes, Jewish intellectuals have served as a radical leaven in Europe and in countries settled by Europeans. A number of attempts have been made to explain the prominent role of Jews in radical movements. Their extensive participation has been traced to the Jewish prophetic tradition and to humanistic, universalistic, and intellectual values in Judaism which lead to support for civil liberties. In general, the extensive participation of Jews in liberal and radical movements in Christian societies is seen as a function of several interrelated variables, including marginality and family structure. Radicalism among young males of Jewish background is the result of four interacting variables: historical marginaiity; a matriarchal family structure which has resulted in a particular modal personality; a radical tradition; and social crisis.
