Comedic Tastes as Social Relations of Class: The Example of Youth from Cultured Class Fractions

On the basis of a reception study comedic television series, this article extends analysis class-based social and moral tastes to humor. The results it formulates are focused on sample young people from cultured fractions middle upper classes. In sharing their likes dislikes, individuals interviewed here situate themselves socially, express both what they aspire reject in terms cultural consumption, lifestyle, etc. examines symbolic mechanism at work expression these divided hierarchical seeks demonstrate how dimensions intersect within humor, understood as class affect.