Being Jewish: An Approach to Conceptualization and Operationalization


 

Publication Date: January 1971

Publisher: Gratz College (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Author(s): Arnold Dashefsky

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: World Jews; Jewish identification

Type: Report

Abstract:

This paper utilizes the symbolic interactionist approach as a basis to develop some distinctions in conceptualization and subsequently a procedure for measuring a specific aspect of being Jewish: distinctive Jewish self-perception.