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  • "In a nation that values privacy and individualism, why do Americans so eagerly answer surveys and treasure the resulting data? Igo explores how changes in commerce, governance, culture, and the social sciences have converged to induce Americans to answer survey questions on everything from sexual practices to voting patterns. Igo draws on researchers' private papers to reveal how the Gallup poll, the Kinsey reports, and other studies and surveys have been formulated; the kind of undisclosed assumptions behind the surveys; and how conclusions are drawn from the responses. She begins by exploring how the detailed survey of Muncie, Indiana, in the 1920s and its transformation to "Middletown," a representation of American averageness, changed broader American society. Igo also explores how Americans allow their behavior to be judged and influenced by the results of surveys, measuring themselves against studies showing that half of all marriages end in divorce and that most Americans support the death penalty. Igo brings historical perspective and a critical eye to surveys and the creation of the notion of a mass public. " (Verlagsinformation) (xsd:string)
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  • 9780674023215 ()
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  • The averaged American : surveys, citizens, and the making of a mass public (xsd:string)
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  • Cambridge u.a.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2007.- 398 S. (xsd:string)
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