Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

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Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Author	Jacques Ellul
Translator	Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Vintage Books
Pages	320
ISBN	978-0-394-71874-3

Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965/1973) (French: Propagandes; original French edition: 1962) is a book on the subject of propaganda by French philosopher, theologian, legal scholar, and sociologist Jacques Ellul. This book appears to be the first attempt to study propaganda from a sociological approach as well as a psychological one ^{[dubious – discuss]}. It presents a sophisticated taxonomy for propaganda, including such paired opposites as political–sociological, vertical–horizontal, rational–irrational, and agitation–integration. The book contains Ellul's theories about the nature of propaganda to adapt the individual to a society, to a living standard, and to an activity aiming to make the individual serve and conform.