A Theory of Public Opinion

ISBN-13: 9781138518537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 328 str.

Francis Wilson

Opis

This book traces the emergence of the ideas and institutions that evolved to give people mastery over their own destiny through the force of public opinion

Spis treści

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, H. Lee Cheek, Jr.
Acknowledgments
A Preface and an Explanation

Part I. The Historical Inquiry
Chapter 1. In Quest of a Public
Chapter 2. The Great Ideas: A Converging Stream
Chapter 3. The Necessary Institutions of Public Opinion

Part II. The Modern Inquiry
Chapter 4. The Emergence and Shaping of the Study of Public Opinion
Chapter 5. Controversy, Tradition, and Culture
Chapter 6. The Quality of Opinion
Chapter 7. Systematic Techniques

Part III. Groups and the Ordering of Opinion
Chapter 8. Public Opinion and the Intellectuals
Chapter 9. The Middle Class
Chapter 10. The Proletarian Definition

Part IV. Assessments and Conclusions
Chapter 11. The Situation of the Common Man
Chapter 12. Theory for Tomorrow

Index

O autorze

Francis Wilson