Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) - Hardcover

Walsh, Katherine Cramer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226872181 ISBN 13: 9780226872186

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2003

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Katharine Cramer Walsh shows how political conversation, friendship, and identity evolve together, creating stronger communities and social ties. But she also reveals how such informal discussion can have negative effects, reinforcing boundaries and encouraging exclusivity.

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Whether at parties, around the dinner table, or at the office, people talk about politics all the time. Yet while such conversations are a common part of everyday life, political scientists know very little about how they actually work. InTalking about Politics, Katherine Cramer Walsh provides an innovative, intimate study of how ordinary people use informal group discussions to make sense of politics.

Walsh examines how people rely on social identities—their ideas of who "we" are—to come to terms with current events. In Talking about Politics, she shows how political conversation, friendship, and identity evolve together, creating stronger communities and stronger social ties. Political scientists, sociologists, and anyone interested in how politicsreally works need to read this book.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0226872181
• ISBN 13: 9780226872186
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264