TY  - BOOK
AU  - Igo,Sarah E.
TI  - The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public / 
SN  - 9780674027428
AV  - HN29 .I44 2007eb
U1  - 301.072/073 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - Social surveys
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - sh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction: America in Aggregate --; 1. Canvassing a "Typical" Community --; 2. Middletown Becomes Everytown --; 3. Polling the Average Populace --; 4. The Majority Talks Back --; 5. Surveying Normal Selves --; 6. The Private Lives of the Public --; Epilogue: Statistical Citizens --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. But remarkably, such data--now woven into our social fabric--became common currency only in the last century. With a bold and sophisticated analysis, Sarah Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans' sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674038943
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674038943
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674038943/original
ER  -