LEADER 04370nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910464222703321 005 20210625235740.0 010 $a3-11-089899-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110898996 035 $a(CKB)3360000000338355 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000751285 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12343370 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000751285 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10754030 035 $a(PQKB)11022178 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3041965 035 $a(DE-B1597)56796 035 $a(OCoLC)979628599 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110898996 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3041965 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10597807 035 $a(OCoLC)922944603 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000338355 100 $a20060324d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGood humor, bad taste$b[electronic resource] $ea sociology of the joke /$fby Giselinde Kuipers ; [translated from the Dutch by Kate Simms] 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2006 215 $aviii, 293 p. $cill 225 0 $aHumor research,$x1861-4116 ;$v7 300 $aTranslation of: Goede humor, slechte smaak with revised material and added chapter. 311 0 $a3-11-018615-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgements --$tContents --$tChapter 1. Introduction: Jokes, humor, and taste --$tPart I. Style and social background --$tChapter 2. The joke: Genesis of an oral genre --$tChapter 3. Joke telling as communication style --$tChapter 4. The humor divide: Class, age, and humor styles --$tChapter 5. The logic of humor styles --$tPart II. Taste and quality --$tChapter 6. The repertoire: Dutch joke culture --$tChapter 7. Temptation and transgression --$tChapter 8. Sense and sociability --$tPart III. Comparing humor styles --$tChapter 9. National humor styles: Joke telling and social background in the United States --$tChapter 10. Conclusion: Sociology and the joke --$tAppendix 1. The jokes used in the Dutch survey --$tAppendix 2. Dutch humorists and television programs --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aGood 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. 606 $aDutch wit and humor$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWit and humor$xSocial aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDutch wit and humor$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWit and humor$xSocial aspects. 676 $a306.4/81 686 $aEC 3980$2rvk 700 $aKuipers$b Giselinde$f1971-$01033124 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464222703321 996 $aGood humor, bad taste$92451491 997 $aUNINA