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Talking about Politics
Katherine Cramer Walsh
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Description for Talking about Politics
Paperback. 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. Series: Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 line drawings, 14 tables. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
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. In Talking 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 ... Read more
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. In Talking 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226872209
SKU
V9780226872209
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