A01=Francis Wilson
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Antisocial Behavior
Author_Francis Wilson
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Collective Mental Life
common
democratic participation
Diogenes
Direct Democracy
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expert influence analysis
Franz Von Holtzendorff
free
Free Opinion
Free Public Opinion
group dynamics research
historical evolution of public opinion
IBM Card
lippmann
man
mass communication theory
Middle Class
Middle Class Theory
Modern Library Edition
Modern Public Opinion
opinion formation
political
Political Parties
Public Administration
Public Opinion
Public Opinion Process
Public Opinion Quarterly
Quantitative Student
quarterly
Quod Omnes Tangit Ab Omnibus
R Y
review
science
social psychology
Tom Harrisson
Violating
Voluntary Social Group
walter
War Time
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9781138518537
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book traces the emergence of the ideas and institutions that evolved to give people mastery over their own destiny through the force of public opinion. The Greek belief in citizen participation is shown as the ground upon which the idea of public opinion began and grew. For Wilson, public opinion is an "orderly force," contributing to social and political life. Wilson appraises the influence of modern psychology and the slow appearance of methodologies that would enable people not only to measure the opinions of others, but to mold them as well. He examines the relation of the theory of public opinion to the intellectuals, the middle class, and the various revolutionary and proletarian movements of the modern era. The circumstances in which the individual may refuse to follow the opinions of the experts are succinctly and movingly analyzed. This book is a historical and philosophical evaluation of a concept that has played a decisive part in history, and whose overwhelming force is underestimated. The author's insight brings an understanding that is invaluable at a time when public opinion, the force developed to enable the ruled to restrain their rulers, has become controllable. Attempts to manipulate it are made by those who would impose their will upon their fellow men.
