Humour in Society: Resistance and Control

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Stupidity and Rationality: Jokes from the Iron Cage....Pages 1-32
The Origins of the Political Joke....Pages 33-55
Auschwitz Jokes....Pages 56-66
Is the Pope Catholic? A Content Analysis of American Jokelore about the Catholic Clergy....Pages 67-85
A Phenomenological Analysis of Humour in Society....Pages 86-105
Blue Jokes: Humour in Police Work....Pages 106-122
‘Jokers Wild’: Humour in Organisational Culture....Pages 123-148
Racist Humour and Racist Ideology in British Television, or I Laughed Till You Cried....Pages 149-178
Scriptwriters and Producers: A Dimension of Control in Television Situation Comedies....Pages 179-205
The Comedian as Portrayer of Social Morality....Pages 206-233
Representations of Women and Men in Playboy Sex Cartoons....Pages 234-259
In Search of Literature on the Sociology of Humour: A Sociobibliographical Afterword....Pages 260-271
Back Matter....Pages 272-279