Appreciation of humor sense in college students

Appreciation of humor includes several cognitive and social processes. None can say that two communities will laugh at the same jokes and find funny the same humorous content. This study worked differences in humor appreciation of university students and comparisons were made between sex and age of participants. To assess the appreciation of humor was built an instrument with 15 written jokes. This instrument was presented to a total sample of 81 students, divided into 3 groups of different age. Participants had to evaluate two aspects: the playfulness and the difficulty of each stimulus or humorous vignette. The jokes that showed significant differences in jocularity have a particular structure marked for a disqualifying content to men, indicating, as noted the literature, that men have more fun with sexual humor and prefers this kind of jokes as well as content related to aggressive or hostile, while women have more fun with humorous vignettes when the man is the victim and reject more when the victim is a woman. In terms of age and the appreciation of humor, there are differences in the type of situations and social contexts valued in the jokes, involving relationship between situational and social aspects of humor.

El genocidio de la U.P: una reflexión sobre el concepto de oposición en los textos escolares de bachillerato

Esta investigación tuvo como propósito analizar cómo se ha abordado el concepto de oposición a través del genocidio de la U.P. en los textos escolares de bachillerato como un medio de construcción de identidad ciudadana. Asimismo buscó exponer la relación entre En ese sentido se examinaron los textos escolares de ciencias sociales. A través de dicho análisis se pretendió relacionar los textos escolares con la democracia y la educación en valores democráticos, de tal manera que se resalta la importancia de la reconstrucción de memoria histórica sobre temas de interés nacional como lo es el genocidio de la Unión Patriótica, asimismo esta investigación enfatiza sobre la importancia de los textos escolares y de la educación en general, en el proceso formativo de los ciudadanos de un régimen democrático.