[lbo-talk] Hypothesis: Jews Are Less Zionist and Pro-Israel thanNon-Jewish Whites of the Same Income Group

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Yoshie:
> I wonder how much it costs to do this type of survey, with fairly
> large samples, making sure that largely secular Jews (Jewish by
> virtue of cultural identification, without necessarily belonging to
> any particular synagogue) won't get omitted from the Jewish part of
> the sample.

I would not recommend a survey at all in this situation.  You will get
mostly predictable politically correct answers.  A better approach is focus
groups, or "sociological intervention" as Alain Touraine called.  He used it
quite effectively to study highly contentious political issues.  Google it
up or see:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cjscopy/articles/Hamel.html
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/jijh1/soc_links/french.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Touraine
http://www.sociologistswithoutborders.org/contributions/hsia_-_empowering_fo
reign_brides.html

If you are serious about such a study - it may not cost as much as you
think, and even less if you can get away with not paying the participants.
Just make sure that your sample is highly purposive and includes
representative of all factions of interest.  

Wojtek