Constructing Public Opinion: How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with It

by Justin Lewis

Book Overview

Is polling a process that brings "science" into the study of society? Or are polls crude instruments that tell us little about the way people actually think? The role of public opinion polls in government and mass media has gained increasing importance with each new election or poll taken.

Here Lewis presents a new look at an old tradition, the first study of opinion polls using an interdisciplinary approach combining cultural studies, sociology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231117671
• ISBN13: 9780231117678
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher