What Goes Without Saying
Navigating Political Discussion in America
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What Goes Without Saying
Navigating Political Discussion in America
About this book
Why are political conversations uncomfortable for so many people? The current literature focuses on the structure of people's discussion networks and the frequency with which they talk about politics, but not the dynamics of the conversations themselves. In What Goes Without Saying, Taylor N. Carlson and Jaime E. Settle investigate how Americans navigate these discussions in their daily lives, with particular attention to the decision-making process around when and how to broach politics. The authors use a multi-methods approach to unpack what they call the 4D Framework of political conversation: identifying the ways that people detect others' views, decide whether to talk, discuss their opinions honestly—or not, and determine whether they will repeat the experience in the future. In developing a framework for studying and explaining political discussion as a social process, What Goes Without Saying will set the agenda for research in political science, psychology, communication, and sociology for decades to come.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Opening the Black Box of Political Discussion
- 2 The 4D Framework of Political Discussion
- 3 Data Collection
- 4 Detection: Mapping the Political Landscape (Stage 1)
- 5 Decision: To Talk or Not to Talk? (Stage 2)
- 6 Discussion: The Psychophysiological Experience of Political Discussion (Stage 3)
- 7 [further] Discussion: Expression in Political Discussions (Stage 3)
- 8 Determination: When Discussion Divides Us (Stage 4)
- 9 Individual Dispositions and the 4D Framework
- 10 The Costs of Conversation
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index