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Journal Article

« RUMOR ET OPINIO »

Françoise Reumaux
Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie
NOUVELLE SÉRIE, Vol. 86 (Janvier-Juin 1989), pp. 123-139
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40690381
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Abstract

Nous avons voulu tendre Voreille aux divers bruits et clameurs sociales d'autrefois pour, évaluant leur portée sonore, retrouver le sens de leur fonction et reconstituer le parcours du phénomène rumeur. On s'apercevra que plus la Rumeur se définit dans le temps, moins elle devient repérable, plus le bruit qu'elle fait décroît, plus elle se voit attribuer un caractère public, caractère qui l'oppose cependant, par quelques invariants, à l'opinion publique. We have tried to concentrate our attention on various past rumours and social shouts in order to assess their impact, define their meaning and reconstitute the way in which this phenomena has spread over. We have thus noted that the more Rumour is applying to a certain period of time, the less easy it is to find its origin ; the less influential it becomes, the more it is considered as a public phenomenon, under which some constant factors however make it opposed to public opinion.