Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life
Nina Eliasoph
Civic groups are said to be the fount of democracy, but these vivid portraits of American life reveal an intriguing culture of political avoidance. Nina Eliasoph accompanied volunteers, activists and recreation club members, listening to them talk--and not talk--politics, in a range of private and public settings. Unlike interview-based studies of political participation and civic culture, Avoiding Politics shows how citizens create and communicate political ideas in everyday life, and the hard work it takes to produce apathy in a democracy.
سب زمرہ:
سال:
2003
اشاعت:
1
ناشر کتب:
Cambridge Univ Press
زبان:
english
صفحات:
341
ISBN 10:
052158759X
ISBN 13:
9780521587594
سیریز:
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies'',
فائل:
PDF, 6.41 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003