LEADER 04877oam 2200685I 450 001 9910460750903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-315-66335-X 010 $a1-317-34585-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315663357 035 $a(CKB)3710000000443716 035 $a(EBL)3569786 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001573050 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16226744 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001573050 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14840919 035 $a(PQKB)11597445 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3569786 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3569786 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11077696 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL809315 035 $a(OCoLC)929510673 035 $a(OCoLC)970392879 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000443716 100 $a20180706e20162006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPeople and their opinions $ethinking critically about public opinion /$fEric Shiraev, Richard Sobel 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. 311 $a1-138-45894-5 311 $a0-321-07898-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Cover ""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Preface""; ""About the Authors""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction: The Nature of Public Opinion""; ""What Is Public Opinion?""; ""Types of Public Opinion""; ""A Case in Point 1.1: Elitist Commentators or Next-Door Neighbors?""; ""Public Opinion and Society""; ""Social Value of Opinion Polls""; ""Practical Value""; ""Comparative Value""; ""A Case in Point 1.2: Specific Opinions on Particular Policies""; ""A Case in Point 1.3: When Pollsters and Their Sponsors "Go Wrong"""; ""Political and Ideological Value"" 327 $a""Overall Resistance to Polling""""Government: Does Public Opinion Matter?""; ""Two Views on Government and Polls""; ""A Topic for Class Discussion: Factors Mediating Public Opinion's Influence on Policy""; ""Political Structure: Institutions and Communications""; ""Political Landscape and Elections""; ""Political Participation""; ""Assignment 1.1: Proliferating Information Sources""; ""Chapter Summary""; ""Definitions of Key Terms""; ""Chapter 2 Measurement of Opinion""; ""Measurement and Human Expression""; ""Steps in Survey Research""; ""Sample Selection""; ""Types of Sampling"" 327 $a""Sampling Error""""Sampling and Accuracy of Polls""; ""A Case in Point 2.1: The 1948 Polling Disaster""; ""A Case in Point 2.2: The Use of Nonrepresentative Samples""; ""Looking for Linkages""; ""Surveys""; ""Survey Questions""; ""Structure and Order of Questions""; ""A Case in Point 2.3: The Way Questions Are Asked""; ""Hazy, Knotty, Corny, and Other Bad Questions""; ""Question Translation""; ""Non-Survey Methods""; ""Experiment""; ""Content Analysis""; ""Focus Groups""; ""Meta-Analysis: Research on Research""; ""Qualitative Approaches""; ""A Case in Point 2.4: Culture-Bound Surveys"" 327 $a""Assignment 2.1: Problems with Questions""""Assignment 2.2: Errors in Sampling""; ""Chapter Summary""; ""Definitions of Key Terms""; ""Chapter 3 Thinking Critically About People's Opinions""; ""Critical Thinking about Polls""; ""Thinking About a Survey's Context""; ""Circumstances Surrounding a Survey""; ""The Way the Question Is Asked""; ""Thinking About Bias in Survey Interpretation""; ""Be Aware of Your Own Prejudgments""; ""Be Aware of Respondents' Assumptions""; ""A Topic for Class Discussion: "Right" and "Wrong" Issues""; ""Wording: Look Critically at Descriptions"" 327 $a""Pay Attention to Labels""""Question Secondary Sources""; ""Be Aware of Dichotomous and Continuous Variables""; ""A Case in Point 3.1: Headlines About Survey Results""; ""Explanations: Understanding Sources of Opinions""; ""Know How to Interpret Correlations and Co-appearances""; ""Look for Many Causes""; ""A Case in Point 3.2: What the "Average" American Thinks About Correlation and Causation""; ""Assignment 3.1: Similarities and Differences""; ""Chapter Summary""; ""Definitions of Key Terms""; ""Chapter 4 Attitudes and Opinions""; ""The Nature of Attitudes"" 327 $a""A Case in Point 4.1: Culture and Attitudes"" 606 $aPublic opinion 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical socialization 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPublic opinion. 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aPolitical socialization. 676 $a303.3/8 700 $aShiraev$b Eric$f1960-,$0988251 701 $aSobel$b Richard$f1949-$0889300 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460750903321 996 $aPeople and their opinions$92259827 997 $aUNINA