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Flaherty, Michael Gregory 2014-12-16T05:01:08Z 2014-12-16T05:01:08Z 10000-01-01 1982 1982 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. Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T05:01:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8302859.pdf: 9216076 bytes, checksum: 7ac1720dfdbe4d6d388112514fa8fbf6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1982 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 71157 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 274 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/70991 (UMI)AAI8302859 Sociology, General Reality Play: A Sociological Analysis of Amusement text Sociology Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.