The Social Faces of Humour
Practices and Issues
- 357 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
First published in 1996, this volume is a sequel to Humour in Society: Resistance and Control which was edited by George E.C. Paton and Chris Powell. Now, seven years later, the culturally central nature of humour seems greater than ever.
This collection of original essays critically assesses the practices of humour in various role relationships in a number of social contexts, for example, in the workplace and between family members. A feature of this new volume is the critical analysis of socio-linguistic practices, including the use of jokes and cartoons, to manage tensions in social relationships at the micro- and macro-sociological levels of human interaction. Wider social and cultural issues area also examined by other contributors concerned with alternative comedy and sitcoms in British and Australian society, for example, which along with humour practices are situated by the editors in their introduction to substantiate the value of studying and researching the sociology of humour.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Editors’ introduction
- 1 The politics of laughter
- 2 Puritanical and politically correct? A critical historical account of changes in the censorship of comedy by the BBC
- 3 The status of verbal humour in British society: contextual aspects of English humour
- 4 ‘Down with Skool!’: the perspective of youth in contemporary western humour
- 5 Humour at work and the work of humour
- 6 Laughing on the other side of your PACE? An analysis of cartoons appearing in Police Review 1979–1993
- 7 Mixed feelings: ambivalence, sexuality and cartoon humour
- 8 ‘It’s only a joke’: the role of humour in mother-in-law relationships
- 9 The sick disaster joke as carnivalesque postmodern narrative impulse
- 10 Laughter in its place
- 11 Laughter, footing and the tolerantial self
- 12 Stepping into Wayne’s World: exploring postmodern comedy
- 13 Everything else is propaganda: the politics of alternative comedy
- Names index
- Subject index