Game-Rules and Social Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2379290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F C Kew (Dept. Applied and Community Studies, Ilkley Campus Wells Road, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 9RD United Kingdom), Francis Kew (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 293-307 |
| Publication date | 1992-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/101269029202700402 |
| OpenAlex | W2071573562 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
Game Theory, Experimental Games and many other social theorists use games as an analytic device to understand non-game social processes, yet operate with a narrow conception of games restricted to the formal or codified rules. This formalist imagery of games provides an inadequate account of agency in games and fails to access the interpretive work by players in negotiating with game-structures. In contrast Garfinkel's ethnomethodological perspective on social processes provides the basis for identifying five interdependent dimensions of rule-following in games. This suggests that game processes are necessarily under-determined by formal rules, and that players can explore the essential insufficiency of the rules in pursuit of their interests in winning. This provides the basis for understanding changes to game-structures over time and has broader application to other social processes
Economics · Epistemology · Ethnomethodology · Game mechanics · Game theory · Interdependence · Mathematical economics · Metagaming · Negotiation · Non-cooperative game · Screening game · Simultaneous game · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Doping in Sports · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Artificial Intelligence
Method and Measurement in Sociology
Studies in ethnomethodology
Structure of Social Action
The coming crisis of western sociology
Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology
The phenomenology of the social world
Sport and Work
Games for Society, Business and War
Meanings and Situations
Rules and games
What is a Game
Two Concepts of Rules
Sociological Theory and the "Multiple Reality" Game
The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology
The social construction of mind
The constitution of society
The reality of ethnomethodology
Philosophical investigations
On the Notion of Rule
Cooperation, association, and contest
The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology
Games as Vehicles for Social Theory
The Development of Games
The Commercialization of English Elite Basketball 1972-1988
Contested Rules
Playing the Game
Sport
Ethnomethodology since Garfinkel
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |