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The Public Opinion Process: How the People Speak: Routledge Communication Series

Autor Irving Crespi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 1997
What is public opinion? How can we best study it?

This work presents a "process model" that answers these questions by defining public opinion in a way that also identifies an approach to studying it. The model serves as a framework into which the findings of empirical research are integrated, producing a comprehensive understanding of public opinion that encompasses the congeries of middle-range theories that have emerged from empirical research. The three-dimensional process model--and the way it is explicated--satisfies the diverse and sometimes divergent needs and interests of political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, and communication specialists who study public opinion. This is achieved by clearly differentiating and interrelating the following:
* individual opinions--the judgmental outcomes of a process in which attitudinal systems--comprised of beliefs, values/interests, and feelings--function as intervening variables that direct and structure perceptions of public issues;
* collective opinions--the outcomes of communication from which mutual awareness emerges and that integrate separate individual opinions into a significant social force; and
* political roles of collective and individual opinions--the outcomes of the extent to which collective and individual opinions have achieved legitimacy as the basis for governing a people.

DON'T USE THIS PARAGRAPH FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... Each dimension of the model has its corresponding subprocess: transactions between individuals and their environments, communications among individuals and collectives, and political legitimation of public opinion. Since the process model is -- by definition -- interactional, none of the three dimensions has theoretical or sequential priority over the others. Instead of treating the psychological, political, and sociological aspects of public opinion as separate stages of an unidirectional process, the three aspects are modeled as dimensions of a complex, ongoing system in continuous interaction with each other. This conceptualization satisfies the need for a truly interdisciplinary theory in that it demands that each dimension be studied in terms of its defining sub-process. It also avoids the twin errors of reductionism and reification in the study of public opinion.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780805826654
ISBN-10: 0805826653
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Communication Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Professional

Cuprins

Contents: Introduction. A Public Opinion Model. The Emergence of Individual Opinions. Collective Opinion as a Social Force. Effects of Communication Technology. Public Opinion in Nondemocratic Societies. Public Opinion In Democracies. Polls and the Public Opinion Process. A Kaleidoscopic Process.

Recenzii

"Students of public opinion will find this study an excellent recasting of the many questions surrounding that oft-worshipped but seldom understood concept of public opinion. New, thoughtful, and sound in its theoretical approach to the study of public opinion, it is recommended for both college and university libraries, lower-division undergraduate and above."
CHOICE
"Crespi offers some insightful points in this book, presenting his ideas in a straightforward, professional manner."
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
"Irving Crespi provides a definitive profile of that phenomenon, public opinion....The author brings a wealth of experience to the task....This book is authoritative, generally well written, and appropriate as a reader or text for a senior or graduate-level course dealing with public opinion."
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
"The process model presented in this book serves as a framework for the many ideas and facts that, until now, have been imperfectly related to each other and facilitates further analysis of the public opinion process."
Administration and Law

Descriere

This work presents a process model that answers the questions what is public opinion and how can we best study it? The volume will be of interest to social scientists, politicians, political scientists, political journalists, and social philosophers.