Stigmatization or adaptation: transformation of conteporary humour (results of sociological research)

Abstract

Nowadays humour runs through practically all spheres of social life, including those that were previously tabooed. Most obviously it appears in stigma-humour, that is based on jokes, which concern stigmatized groups of people. Those topics that were previously publicly suppressed convey attitudes towards them with the transition to the new stage of transformation of the humouristic through the revealing of the comical. Moreover, such humour by itself is also an active tool, that releases adaptation or stigmatization function and determines the perception of deviant groups by soсiety in the spring of 2016 the authors conducted empirical study on the role of modern stigma-humor based on the cases of youth TV series and popular performances. The key findings relate to the situations which jokes concerned stigmatized groups of people promote social adaptation, or vice versa. Refs 14. Fig. 1. Tables 6.