Re: [Pen-l] Going Dutch

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 7, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Jim Devine wrote:

> Consciousness cannot be changed at all via agitation or propaganda?


This morning I read some of Daniel Geary's new book on C. Wright Mills  
to prepare for an interview with him, which I just recorded. One of  
Mills's early jobs was working for Paul Lazarsfeld studying the  
process of opinion formation in Decatur, Illinois. Basically, the  
model they developed - though Mills split with his boss over  
Lazarsfeld's lack of interest in structures of power - was that the  
media influenced public opinion via "thought leaders" in a community.  
Mills thought the labor movement should learn from this in its  
propagandizing.

Carrol is always big on the role of personal influence on political  
thought and action, which is true, but there are ways to influence the  
process, contrary to his fatalism about everything.

Doug
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