Sociologica
N. 1/2008
Doi: 10.2383/26563
Copyright © 2008 by Società editrice il Mulino, Bologna
Essays
Comment on Fine, Harrington, and Segre/2
Groups and publics
Abstract
The central question of this comment is how to conceptualize public sphere with reference to tiny publics. I suggest that a political sociology grounded in small groups dynamics needs a notion of public sphere close to that conceptualized by E. Noelle-Neumann.
Keywords:
politics, groups, public sphere, civil society, social miniaturism.