| Center |
| Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication |
| Departament |
| Language Theory and Communication Sciences |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| The student can choose between an evaluation via examination or a research project (groups max 3 people or individual ). |
| Met. Avaluació |
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| Bibliografia |
| - BERRIO, Jordi (1990), LÆopinió pública i la democràcia, Barcelona, Pòrtic. - BÍCKELMANN, Frank (1983), Formación y funciones sociales de la opinión pública, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili. - CRESPI, Irving (2000), El proceso de opinión pública, Barcelona, Ariel. - CHAMPAGNE, Patrick (1990), Faire lÆopinion: le nouveau jeu politique, París, Éditions du Minuit. - DADER, José Luis (1992), El periodista en el espacio público, Barcelona, Bosch. - HABERMAS, Jürgen (1997), Historia y crítica de la opinión pública, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili. - HABERMAS, Jürgen (1998), Facticidad y validez, Madrid, Trotta. - LAVRAKAS, Paul, y TRAUGOTT, Michael (2000), Election Polls, the News Media, and De |
| Continguts |
| SUBJECT DESCRIPTION: Formation, characteristics and social functions of public opinion. Revision of the main public opinion theories, their representations and their influence as a social and political actor. Theoretical/practical subject that complements the theoretical explanations with the realization of diverse practical works. CONTENTS 1) Introduction: public opinion as problem a. What is the public opinion? b. The public c. The opinion d. Notion of ôpublic spaceö 2) Public opinion theories: appearance and crisis of the classic pattern a. Classic pattern: bourgeois public opinion b. From bourgeois democracy to a democracy of masses c. Marxist analysis and Critical Theory d. Society of Masses theory 3) Contemporary theories: a. Empirical pattern or public opinion as a combination of opinions and attitudes b. Jürgen Habermas's Communicative Action theory c. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann's Silence Spiral theory d. From elites to public: John Zaller's pattern 4) Public opinion representations: a. Vote and Parliament b. The media c. Opinion polls d. Social manifestations 5) Public opinion as a social process |
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| URL de Fitxa |