Matthew Boxer

Religion and Knowledge: Sociological Perspectives

important variable, but so are some of the other variables that Gross discusses. In addition, he does not give enough attention to the war in Vietnam and how radical students who wanted to avoid military service entered the university in just the departments which were the most liberal. These students were the leaders of the campus demonstrations and sit-ins which tore apart many colleges and universities. The radical students got tenure and influenced their departments in ways that the small number of academics identifying as radical belie. One radical faculty member can be successful in influencing a department with the help of a majority of the members who themselves identify as liberals or left-leaning moderates.