Culture and power; A Study on Power-Based Relation through everyday's Jokes in a Teashop

This paper investigates the methods of power relations appearing in everyday jokes in a teahouse. By using ethnomethodology and conversation analysis method, we tried to show how cultural concepts within power relations constructed through strategies and language games of the social actors in a special context and use as a tool to advance their purposes and intentions. This qualitative study within three months of the study and a researcher in the field of audio recording of conversations and analysis of conversations is replication rules. A purposive sample of four main groups present in Teahouse and conversation among members of the group on it. The results show that how concepts such as culture and power flown in the depth of our social life and to what extent integrated with our everyday life. What, at the first sight, maybe a simple joke, to what extend is the constitutive of cultural concepts in dialogue text and is affected by the rules and power structure that located behind this apparent interaction and comply with that.