@Band
I am not sure exactly what you asking or even saying. You seem to be jumping all over the place from topic to topic. You say going to law school is an extremely "unwitness" activity...you must mean "uncommon", since seeking a non-secular education or even a career for that matter is discouraged by the congregation but it is not an unscriptural offence.
In addition, the conclusion that JW's would be social conservatives may be obvious to you, since you are educated on the sect, but most are not and there is no hard-line documented evidence out there to point to the "obvious answer". My research aims to do such.
@VIII
No, I am not planning on a career at Bethel. Although I love Jehovah, I am not necessarily a stand-out Witness. Plus, the Bethel lifestyle is not for me. That is not even taking into consideration my ambivalent feelings toward the Watchtower in general.
Polling defected JW's is simply a portion, not the focus, of my thesis. I am seeking to see how former members feel about the same issues I am polling active JW's about. For example, I am already seeing a hard-line difference between active and defected member's feelings about whether religion has a place in the bedroom, the literalness of the Bible, homosexuality, and abortion.