Author Question: Looking at humor from a structural-functional viewpoint, jokes ________ a. tend to bring people ... (Read 269 times)

jake · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Looking at humor from a structural-functional viewpoint, jokes ________

a. tend to bring people together.
b. can be a way of making one category of people feel good at the expense of another.
c. are a good way of reducing conflict in society.
d. are often used to relieve tensionlightening a situation.

Question 2

When interacting with people of an unfamiliar cultural background, ________

a. telling jokes is a good way to break the ice.
b. we find people everywhere enjoy many of the same jokes.
c. we find that some cultures do not have humor.
d. what is funny to people in one society may not be funny to those from another society.