[17 + 18] November 18 and 21 - Attitudes: Measuring public opinion
Section outline
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Monday: A201
Lecture: Daryna
Presentations: Rajarshi, Sofia
Thursday: A214
Presentation: Camille
Assigned reading:
Monday:Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1909), 41-47; 56-66.
W. Trotter, "Prejudice in time of war," from Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (1919), 214-224.
Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1919), 41-52; 79-89. [original text available here]
Emile Durkheim, "Conclusion" (excerpt), The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, 444-448.
Daniel Pick, "Freud's Group Psychology and the history of the crowd," History Workshop Journal 40 (1995): 39-61.
Thursday:
Questionnaire from War and the Kostroma countryside (according to data of the Statistical Department’s questionnaire) (1915), 140–142.
Peter Holquist, "'Information is the alpha and omega of our work': Bolshevik surveillance in its pan-European context," J. Mod. Hist. 69 (1997): 415-450.
Further reading:
Eduardo Cintra Torres, "Durkheim's concealed sociology of the crowd," Durkheimian Studies / Études Durkheimiennes 20 (2014): 89-114.
István Dékány, "Tételek és paradoxonok a közvélemény problémájához," Társadalomtudomány 1 (1921): 242-247.
Ludwig Krašković, Die Psychologie der Kollektivitäten (1915).
Stefan Jonsson, "The revolving nature of the social: Primal hordes and crowds without qualities," Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism (2013), 119-141.
David Hoffmann, "Surveillance and propaganda," in Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914-1939 (2011).
Ferdinand Tönnies, Kritik der öffentlichen Meinung (1922).
Image: "Brusilov's main weapon" (victory ink)