Joking cultures: Humor themes as social regulation in group life

Humor

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-22

  Fine, Gary Alan ^a   De Soucey, Michaela ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Ethnography; Joking; Small groups; Social regulation; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844485265     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 09331719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/humr.2005.18.1.1     Document Type: Article

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