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- A social and historical study of jokes told in the main English-speaking countries, based on an extensive use of archives and other primary sources including old and rare joke books.
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Most humor and laughter imply a social relationship, a connection between self and other. Just as one cannot tickle oneself, so, too, one can hardly tell oneself a joke or play a prank on oneself. A jocular event typically requires a minimum of two persons to...
- Sociological Approaches to the Study of Humor - Springer
Among the areas where humor research has been conducted in...
- Sociological Approaches to the Study of Humor - Springer
The best sociology of humor, both theoretical and empirical, has been firmly rooted in sociological theory: incorporating insights from humor scholarship at large, with a sensitivity to the ambiguities and specificities of humor, but basing its interpretive framework and methodological approach in the author’s social theory of choice.
- giselinde kuipers
THE SOCIOLOGY OF HUMOR AS AN INTELLECTUAL FIELD. The three books under review provide a snapshot of the present of the sociology of humor-a picture that reveals not only something humor, but also something about the development of intellectual. 1900 Contra Costa Ave.; Berkeley, California 94707. 327.
While commentators have remarked on Goffman’s apparent technical neutrality, a sociology of humor can help reveal his criti-cal thrust. Using a latent content analysis, we demonstrate how several frames found in Jerry Seinfeld’s humor are both dramaturgical and covertly critical.
Until recently sociology lagged behind all this, and that is quite re- markable because if there is a phenomenon that is truly social and solidly entangled in culture, it is humor. One of the main reasons may be the fact that sociology has been predominantly social problem oriented.
Among the areas where humor research has been conducted in sociology are: the relationship between humor and social roles, the nature of joking relationships, the contextual rules of humor performance, ethnomethodological approaches to humor and laughter in conversation, humor and group culture, reference group theory, humor and ethnic group rel...
Introduction: The Sociology of Humour and Laughter — an Outstanding Debt - Anton C. Zijderveld, 1983. View access options.
