Talking Politics
"Talking Politics provides a kind of anatomy of political discourse, grounded in careful analysis of social-psychological processess. ... Gamson has pioneered new approaches to the study of popular consciousness, developing new conceptual and methodological tools for thinking about how groups actually formulate political understandings."   Contemporary Sociology"...with a fine integration of findings from other studies, the book is a major contribution to our understanding of how people develop political consciousness."   R. E. O'Connor, Choice