Habermas Formed His Ideas About the Public Sphere While Examining

Habermas formed his ideas about the public sphere while examining which aspect of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English and French societies?

A) Aristocrats', royalty's, and religious leaders' discussions of important issues
B) The way newspapers manipulated the lower and middle classes
C) How the middle class began to gather in places like coffeehouses to critically discuss public life
D) The idea that communication and culture could be viewed as the same thing
E) None of the above options is correct.