Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 293 p)
Edition:
2011
ISBN:
9783110898996
Series Statement:
Humor research 7
Content:
Biographical note: Giselinde Kuipers, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Content:
This book is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class, and national differences in the Netherlands and the United States. The exploration of social differences in sense of humor starts off from one specific, and not very prestigious, humorous genre: the joke. Good Humor, Bad Taste explains why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others.
Content:
Review text: "[...] Good Humor, Bad Tast is an important book"Elliott Oring in: Journal of American Folklore 2009 "This is an insightful and very clearly espressed study of an important social phenomenon ?humor. Besides, it contains, if I may say so without losing cast in Batavia, some very funny jokes."Christie Davies in: American Journal of Sociology 2008 "[...] this is a valuable and insightful contribution to the scholarship on jokes and humor that opens up many possibilities for future research."Moira Smith in: Journal of Folklore Research 2/2008
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110186152
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110186154
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110898996
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kuipers, Giselinde, 1971 - Good humor, bad taste Berlin [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2006 ISBN 3110186152
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110186154
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-11-089899-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Niederlande
;
Witz
;
Humor
;
USA
DOI:
10.1515/9783110898996
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Kuipers, Giselinde 1971-
