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

by Katherine Cramer Walsh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226872203
• ISBN13: 9780226872209
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 5.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"