Jokes and their Relations to Society
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Jokes and their Relations to Society

  1. 244 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Jokes and their Relations to Society

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Table of contents

  1. Chapter 1. Introduction
  2. Chapter 2. Fooltowns: Traditional and modern. Local, regional and ethnic jokes about stupidity
  3. Chapter 3. From the Milesians to the Milesians: The Irish-Pontian joke, its history and its absence in China and Japan
  4. Chapter 4. The Protestant ethic and the comic spirit of capitalism
  5. Chapter 5. Stupidity and rationality: Jokes from the iron cage
  6. Chapter 6. Humour for the future and a future for humour
  7. Chapter 7. Ethnic jokes about alcohol: A study of the humour of ambivalence
  8. Chapter 8. “Nasty” legends, “sick” humour and ethnic jokes about stupidity
  9. Chapter 9. Making fun of work: Humour as sociology in the humorous writings of H. G. Wells
  10. Chapter 10: Conclusion
  11. Notes
  12. References
  13. Index