Who are the Public? Public Sphere, Opinions, Moods & History
Who are the public? What is public opinion, public moods? Philosophers Thomas Hobbes, Jurgen Habermas (The Public Sphere), John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alexis de Toqueville and J.S. Mill among others have all conceptualise the public in a certain way. But what if the public are not who they seem? Polling, the birth of Gallup (I look at its history), statistics and mass consumer society and mass democracy have all changed how the public are thought of. I look at this history and try to think about how it affects politics. Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Buy on Amazon through this link to support the channel: https://amzn.to/2ykJe6L Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Sources Jodi Dean, Publicity’s Secret Hans, Speier, Historical Development of Public Opinion, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/220561 Sarah Igo, The Averaged American Democracy and the Concept of Public Opinion, John G. Gunnell, The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media Worcester, Robert M. "Pollsters, the Press, and Political Polling in Britain." The Public Opinion Quarterly 44, no. 4 (1980): 548-66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2748471. Mark Roodhouse, ‘Fish and Chip Intelligence’: Henry Durant and the British Institute of Public Opinion, 1936-1963 M. Heidegger, Being and Time Ringmar, Erik. “What Are Public Moods?” European Journal of Social Theory 21, no. 4 (November 2018): 453–69. doi:10.1177/1368431017736995. CREDITS Heidegger Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Heidegger_2_%281960%29.jpg by Willy Pragher [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] Undercover Vampire Policeman by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/uvp/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/
