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Introduction
Full text linkThis is an introduction to a special issue in honour of one of the most eminent humour scholars, the sociologist Christie Davies (PhD Cantab), University of Reading UK
sj-docx-1-sor-10.1177_13607804221149796 – Supplemental material for Cultural Capital in China? Television Tastes and Cultural and Cosmopolitan Distinctions Among Beijing Youth
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-sor-10.1177_13607804221149796 for Cultural Capital in China? Television Tastes and Cultural and Cosmopolitan Distinctions Among Beijing Youth by Yang Gao and Giselinde Kuipers in Sociological Research Online</p
sj-docx-2-sor-10.1177_13607804221149796 – Supplemental material for Cultural Capital in China? Television Tastes and Cultural and Cosmopolitan Distinctions Among Beijing Youth
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-sor-10.1177_13607804221149796 for Cultural Capital in China? Television Tastes and Cultural and Cosmopolitan Distinctions Among Beijing Youth by Yang Gao and Giselinde Kuipers in Sociological Research Online</p
Playing with Aggression. In memoriam Christie Davies
No full textThis Special Issue contains twenty contributions based on the area of reserach of the late Christie Davies (PhD Cantab) and Emeritis Professor of Sociology at the University of Reading, UK. The contributors are world wide scholars from Austrailia, Estonia; Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Russia, UK and the USA. Each contribution pivots on the theory of benign violation and how it is adopted in humour in diverse communities
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No full textPaul Kapteyn over Anton C. Zijderveld: The Institutional Imperative. The Interface of Institutions and Networks
Bernard Kruithof over David Bos: In dienst van het Koninkrijk. Beroepsontwikkeling van hervormde predikanten in negentiende-eeuws Nederland
Giselinde Kuipers over Michèle Lamont: The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class and Immigration
Carlo van Praag over Dienke Hondius: Gemengde huwelijken, gemengde gevoelens. Aanvaarding en ontwijking van etnisch en religieus verschil sinds 194
Humour and polarization: How the clown style in 21st century drives people apart, in politics and beyond
No full textIn this essay, I analyse how humour drives people apart, in politics and in society at large. Since the early 2000s, many politicians across the world have embraced humour to position themselves politically and chastise and provoke the establishment. This "clown style" in politics is mostly used by politicians on the populist right, occasionally on the left. In this essay, I analyze over 100 cases of political utterances from the years 2015-2020 from the Dutch, English and Italian-speaking world, that are 1. signalled as non-serious by verbal or non-verbal cues; 2. recognized as humorous by amused responses; 3. explicitly mark ‘symbolic boundaries’ (Lamont, 1992; Kuipers, 2009) or we-them divisions. I identify five strategies by which humour fuels polarization: wilful ambiguity, humorous attack, provocation, community-building and the cultivation of negative affect. This new political humour is both a symptom and a catalyst of increasing polarization. In a polarized political arena, joking politicians believe they stand to gain more from stylistic opposition to conventional politics than from adaptation to it. Previously, politicians with an outrageous style were usually encapsulated by the system. Once elected or appointed to office, they adopted a serious persona more compatible with their new station in life. But today, many politicians remain rowdy, funny and inconsistent even in the highest elected office. Through humour they bond with their substantial following in liberating, carnivalesque, sometimes downright hateful humor
Satire and Irony as an Expression in the Vanguarda Paulista
No full textO trabalho visa discutir a atuação de alguns grupos musicais da chamada “Vanguarda Paulista” no contexto da redemocratização brasileira (final dos anos 1970 até meados dos anos 1980). Através da análise do uso da sátira e da ironia, presentes em suas canções, espera-se relacionar essas características como expressões em resposta ao que seria a recriação de música jovem pela indústria fonográfica/cultural da época. A partir da leitura sociológica do humor, desenvolvida por Giselinde Kuipers e os conceitos de estandardização e fetichização da música de Theodor Adorno, busca-se um paralelo entre o humor das músicas como possibilidade de subversão em relação à indústria fonográfica e à censura, estendendo-se ao resultado desses processos na aceitação/rejeição do público.The study aims to discuss the role of some musical groups from the so-called “Vanguarda Paulista” (Vanguard from São Paulo) in the context of Brazilian re-democratization (late 1970s to mid-1980s). Through the analysis of the use of satire and irony in their songs, the goal is to relate these characteristics as expressions in response to what would be the recreation of youth music by the cultural/music industry of the time. Based on the sociological reading of humour developed by Giselinde Kuipers and the concepts of standardization and fetishization of music by Theodor Adorno, the study seeks to draw a parallel between the humour in the songs as a possibility for subversion in relation to the music industry and censorship, extending to the outcomes of these processes in the audience's acceptance/rejection.Não recebi financiament
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