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Good Humor, Bad Taste - A Sociology of the Joke (Hardcover)
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Good Humor, Bad Taste - A Sociology of the Joke (Hardcover)
Series: Humor Research [HR]
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Good Humor, Bad Taste 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, the book explores the relationship between humor and
gender, age, regional background, and especially, humor and social
class in the Netherlands. The final chapter focuses on national
differences, exploring the differences between the American and the
Dutch sense of humor, again using a combination of interview and
survey materials. The starting point for this exploration of
differences in sense of humor is one specific humorous genre: the
joke. The joke is not a very prestigious genre; in the Netherlands
even less so than in the US. It is precisely this lack of status
that made it a good starting point for asking questions about humor
and taste. Interviewees generally had very pronounced opinions
about the genre, calling jokes "their favorite kind humor", but
also "completely devoid of humor" and "a form of intellectual
poverty". Good Humor, Bad Taste attempts to explain why jokes are
good humor to some, bad taste to others. The focus on this one
genre enables Good Humor, Bad Taste to have a very wide scope. The
book not only covers the appreciation and evaluation of jokes by
different social groups and in different cultures, and its
relationship with wider humor styles. It also describes the genre
itself: the history of the genre, its decline in status from the
sixteenth century onward, and the way the topics and the tone of
jokes have changed over the last fifty years of the twentieth
century.
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