Good Gossip

Book Overview

As ubiquitous and influential as gossip is, it has been surprisingly downplayed as a topic of philosophical, psychological, and sociological investigation and debate.

In Good Gossip, twenty-two scholars from several disciplines turn a professional eye to that much-maligned yet heavily practiced form of conversation. Going beyond merely trying to explain a previously ignored human behavior, many of them argue that gossip has unexpected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070060670X
• ISBN13: 9780700606702
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.5"