Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (Paperback)

from Scapegoats

In the 1920's and 1930's, American's were introduced to numerical descriptions of what it means to be average. A study of Muncie, IN characterized it as average America. The book, Middletown, became a best-seller, unheard of for a social science publication. The public was enthralled with underst...

from DarthDeverell

In The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, Sarah E. Igo argues, "Bound up with citizenship in ways obvious and subtle, surveys demarcated lines of inclusion, exclusion, and affinity in a national public. As such, they sat in complicated relationship to both soci...

from DarthDeverell

In The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, Sarah E. Igo argues, "Bound up with citizenship in ways obvious and subtle, surveys demarcated lines of inclusion, exclusion, and affinity in a national public. As such, they sat in complicated relationship to both soci...