Reality Play: A Sociological Analysis of Amusement
Flaherty, Michael Gregory
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Description
Title
Reality Play: A Sociological Analysis of Amusement
Author(s)
Flaherty, Michael Gregory
Issue Date
1982
Department of Study
Sociology
Discipline
Sociology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, General
Abstract
This report represents an attempt to learn how human beings provoke the emotion "amusement" within themselves or others. In the tradition of Georg Simmel, this task is undertaken through the distillation of that particular form of interpersonal relations which is employed invariably for the production of mirth. Literal conduct is juxtaposed with humor in an effort to grasp the unique properties of jocularity. Analytic induction is applied to ethnographic observations, and these data provide the empirical basis for the conceptualization of "reality play"--that special form of social interaction which is the universal medium for comedy.
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