Public Opinion, or The Power of Numbers
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Every day we are faced with the results of polls of public opinion - from them we get basic information about the society in which we live. Public opinion plays the whole role in modern politics, while it remains incomprehensible whether it is possible to trust the results of the surveys. How to interpret them correctly? What are these figures really say about? Does public opinion polls help the development of democracy? Are polls science or political technology? In order to navigate in the figures of surveys, you need to have knowledge in the field of statistics, political theory, and sociology. But the main thing is to understand where the concept of “public opinion” came from, how its meaning and methods of its measurement changed and why in Russia it has historically has a special meaning. About why sociology is not engaged in the study of public opinion, for what reasons the representativeness is impossible and how the surveys themselves participate in the creation of the reality that they measure, the book of Grigory Yudin will tell
Author:
Author:Юдин Григорий
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Education & Teaching
- Category:Politics & Social Science
- Category:Reference books
- Category:Social Science & Politics
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-94380-294-2
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