An Appreciation of the Contribution of Egon Mayer to Jewish Population, Community, and Family Studies.

The article discusses the contribution of Egon Mayer to the Jewish population, community, and family studies. One of the reasons advanced for the prominence of Jews among the leading lights of sociology has been the notion that as quintessential outsiders, Jews could ask questions in western society. However, there are other intellectual and social-psychological reasons for this trend. The fact that many of academic sociology's most prominent figures, such as Mayer, emerged from the traditional Jewish communities was no accident.