Review
Review of Good Gossip
Contemporary psychology, Vol.40(8), pp.807-808
08/01/1995
DOI: 10.1037/003913
Abstract
Good Gossip (Goodman and Ze'ev; see record 1994-98161-000) is a collection of essays on the subject of gossip. It balances the evil historical reputation of gossip against some of the social functions. The prevailing view is that gossip is moral talk whose purpose is partly social control of questionable individuals and partly the bonding or preservation of social orders of hierarchy and stability. The book first explores the nature of gossip, has a second section on gossip as naive communication, and is rounded out by a section on gossip in various settings. The book is like gossip itself, provocative, often informative, yet uncertainly reliable and probably giving an incomplete picture that is strongly affected by the source's own personal agenda. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Review of Good Gossip
- Creators
- Steve Duck
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Contemporary psychology, Vol.40(8), pp.807-808
- DOI
- 10.1037/003913
- ISSN
- 0010-7549
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/1995
- Academic Unit
- Rhetoric; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984398553102771
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