The averaged American: surveys, citizens, and the making of a mass public
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-378) and index List of illustrations -- Introduction: America in aggregate -- 1: Canvassing a "typical" community -- 2: Middletown becomes everytown -- 3: Polling the average populace -- 4: Majority talks back -- 5: Surveying normal selves -- 6: Private lives of the public -- Epilogue: Statistical citizens -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index From the Publisher: Americans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. Through statistics like these, we feel that we understand our fellow citizens. But remarkably, such data-now woven into our social fabric-became common currency only in the last century. Sarah Igo tells the story, for the first time, of how opinion polls, man-in-the-street interviews, sex surveys, community studies, and consumer research transformed the United States public. 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. They also infiltrated the lives of those who opened their doors to pollsters, or measured their habits and beliefs against statistics culled from strangers. Survey data underwrote categories as abstract as "the average American" and as intimate as the sexual self. With a bold and sophisticated analysis, Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans' sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation. 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 |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (398 p.) |
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| spelling | Igo, Sarah Elizabeth Verfasser aut The averaged American surveys, citizens, and the making of a mass public Sarah E. Igo Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 2007 1 Online-Ressource (398 p.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-378) and index List of illustrations -- Introduction: America in aggregate -- 1: Canvassing a "typical" community -- 2: Middletown becomes everytown -- 3: Polling the average populace -- 4: Majority talks back -- 5: Surveying normal selves -- 6: Private lives of the public -- Epilogue: Statistical citizens -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index From the Publisher: Americans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. Through statistics like these, we feel that we understand our fellow citizens. But remarkably, such data-now woven into our social fabric-became common currency only in the last century. Sarah Igo tells the story, for the first time, of how opinion polls, man-in-the-street interviews, sex surveys, community studies, and consumer research transformed the United States public. 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. They also infiltrated the lives of those who opened their doors to pollsters, or measured their habits and beliefs against statistics culled from strangers. Survey data underwrote categories as abstract as "the average American" and as intimate as the sexual self. With a bold and sophisticated analysis, Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans' sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation. 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 1900 - 1999 fast Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1900-2000 gnd rswk-swf Enquêtes sociales / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle Américains SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General bisacsh Opinieonderzoek gtt Survey-onderzoek gtt Publieke opinie gtt Burgerschap gtt National characteristics, American fast Social history fast Social surveys fast Geschichte Sozialgeschichte Social surveys United States History 20th century National characteristics, American Öffentliche Meinung (DE-588)4043152-6 gnd rswk-swf Massengesellschaft (DE-588)4255134-1 gnd rswk-swf Demoskopie (DE-588)4011425-9 gnd rswk-swf Soziologie (DE-588)4077624-4 gnd rswk-swf USA USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Demoskopie (DE-588)4011425-9 s Massengesellschaft (DE-588)4255134-1 s Öffentliche Meinung (DE-588)4043152-6 s Geschichte 1900-2000 z 1\p DE-604 Soziologie (DE-588)4077624-4 s 2\p DE-604 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=282797 Aggregator Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title_auth | The averaged American surveys, citizens, and the making of a mass public |
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| title_full | The averaged American surveys, citizens, and the making of a mass public Sarah E. Igo |
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| topic | Enquêtes sociales / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle Américains SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General bisacsh Opinieonderzoek gtt Survey-onderzoek gtt Publieke opinie gtt Burgerschap gtt National characteristics, American fast Social history fast Social surveys fast Geschichte Sozialgeschichte Social surveys United States History 20th century National characteristics, American Öffentliche Meinung (DE-588)4043152-6 gnd Massengesellschaft (DE-588)4255134-1 gnd Demoskopie (DE-588)4011425-9 gnd Soziologie (DE-588)4077624-4 gnd |
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