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Sarah E. IgoPublication Details
BookHarvard University Press2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HN29 .I44 2007 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Igo argues that modern surveys, from the Middletown studies to the Gallup Poll and the Kinsey Reports, projected new visions of the nation: authoritative accounts of majorities and minorities, the mainstream and the marginal. Tracing how ordinary people argued about and adapted to a public awash in aggregate data, she reveals how survey techniques and findings became the vocabulary of mass society?and essential to understanding who we, as modern Americans, think we are. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Introduction : America in aggregate
- Canvassing a "typical" community
- Middletown becomes Everytown
- Polling the average populace
- The majority talks back
- Surveying normal selves
- The private lives of the public
- Epilogue : statistical citizens
ISBN
- 0674023218
- 9780674023215
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