The Manipulation of Consent: The State and Working-Class Consciousness in Brazil

by Youssef Cohen

Book Overview

The Manipulation of Consent is a major contribution to our knowledge of the mechanisms by which elites instill in the lower classes the beliefs, values, and attitudes that legitimate their subordinate position in the social order. Youssef Cohen explores the case of Brazil, where the working class was relatively quiescent in the face of the authoritarian regime established by force in 1964. Drawing on recent advances in the theory of the state and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822958066
• ISBN13: 9780822958062
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"