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Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life

Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life

Paperback

Series: Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0226872203
ISBN13: 9780226872209
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Dec 15 2003
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Whether at parties, around the dinner table, or at the office, people talk about politics all the time. Yet while such conversations are a common part of everyday life, political scientists know very little about how they actually work. In Talking about Politics, Katherine Cramer Walsh provides an innovative, intimate study of how ordinary people use informal group discussions to make sense of politics.

Walsh examines how people rely on social identities-their ideas of who we are-to come to terms with current events. In Talking about Politics, she shows how political conversation, friendship, and identity evolve together, creating stronger communities and stronger social ties. Political scientists, sociologists, and anyone interested in how politics really works need to read this book.

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