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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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SO 222 - Humor and Society

Credits: 4
Explores humor as a window onto key sociological questions. What do jokes, gags, clowns, comedians, pranks and cartoons have to do with social order, conflict, inequality, identity and interactions? How does the comedy, as a sociological perspective, illuminate the humor of social organizations and of our subjective states? Students study key sociological arguments and relate them to the humor they observe in their own lives and in the social world around them.

Liberal Arts Perspective(s): Social and Psychological
Foundations Requirement(s):



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