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ANALYSIS OF THE CONFEDERATING FUNCTION OF HUMOR
| Title: | AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONFEDERATING FUNCTION OF HUMOR. |
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| Name(s): |
KHOURY, ROBERT MICHAEL. Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Villemez, Wayne J., Thesis advisor Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Sociology |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 1975 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 138 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | This essay develops a conceptual framework accounting for the potential of humor to enhance social cohesion. A typology of humor is advanced and the constructed types are successively related to the respective types of solidarity deriving from the incidence of humor and the cognitive mechanisms responsible for the emergent fellow-feeling . Beyond explicating the confederating influence of humor. this essay explores the effects of three structural attributes of joking relations upon the nature of the emergent solidarity; these are, the social status of the wit, the nature of the vocalized humor, and, the orientation of the auditors towards their group. The influence of these structural variables upon the cohering potential of humor is considered. In the process of formulating a conceptual scheme explicating the confederating impact of humor as well as assessing the influence of extraneous elements upon this potential the findings of previous humor research are appraised in the light of the advanced argument. | |
| Identifier: | 13756 (digitool), FADT13756 (IID), fau:10586 (fedora) | |
| Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
| Note(s): |
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975. |
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| Subject(s): | Wit and humor--Psychology | |
| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13756 | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
