Humor functions as social currency for navigating school hierarchies

Evidence

In the currency of high school, comedy pays, and Akram was rich. His humor was rarely rude and often infectious. It riffed off the clichés and stupidities of what other people said. It was his way of getting along with students, teachers, deans, and security staff alike. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 485

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Humor can bridge machine Democrats and patrician Republican legislators — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 529