Humour and jokes /
This entry introduces the sociological significance of humour and jokes for qualitative research. Specifically, it explores two distinctive aspects of humour: humour as methodology and the place of jokes in modernity as an object of sociological inquiry in its own right. Finally, the entry brings th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This entry introduces the sociological significance of humour and jokes for qualitative research. Specifically, it explores two distinctive aspects of humour: humour as methodology and the place of jokes in modernity as an object of sociological inquiry in its own right. Finally, the entry brings these two themes together to explore how the ways and means of "getting the joke" provide researchers with a tool of knowing the social and appreciating how humour manifests a distinct type of human sociability. However, because humour is "unserious," a "humorous methodology" is often treated as marginal from the sociological mainstream. Thus, this entry explores how the place and significance of jokes in modern life lies in what their "unseriousness" reveals about the society in which we live. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529748314 1529748313 9781526421036 1526421038 |