Explorers of North America

Baker, S.

Cherrytree Press Ltd.

Recounts the humorous experiences of elementary school teachers and the comic behavior of their students

There's a Worm in My Apple

Literature & Fiction

Johnson, L.

Humor & Satire

General Pub Co Ltd

<p>In this volume, Baker introduces the concept of social tragedy to examine the circumstances in which social actors are moved to recognize and respond to suffering as a legitimate social concern. There is particular emphasis on the ways in which individuals collectively represent the social significance of tragedy, and how certain incidents assume ethical gravity and coherence while others remain distant or disregarded. Social Tragedy focuses on the power of meaningful narratives to move audiences to feel and think about suffering as a cause for moral action. Baker suggests that understanding how a social tragedy becomes meaningful involves examining the role of myth, ritual, and emotion in the construction and reception of the plot (muthos). She also analyzes the role of communication media in the representation of tragedy, noting how these mediums have developed and the social impact of their emergence.</p>

Social Tragedy: The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecology (Cultural Sociology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>A social tragedy is a collective representation of injustice. Baker demonstrates how social tragedies facilitate moral action and discusses a series of contemporary case studies – the death of Princess Diana, Zinédine Zidane's 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY 2012 – to examine their social and political effects.</p>

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