Playing Your Life
Developing Strategies and Managing Impressions in the Game of Bridge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2392152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Punch (0000-0001-9741-0978, University of Stirling), Miriam Snellgrove (0000-0002-2642-1116, University of Stirling, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 601-619 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1360780420973043 |
| OpenAlex | W3111737393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article contributes to the emerging sociology of mind-sport as a new area of research by showing how everyday interaction and life skills are sharpened and honed through strategic interaction at the bridge table. Using the example of the card game bridge, the article explores how elite players engage in time-consuming and repetitive performances that display their ongoing impression management and strategic interaction work. Through interviews with 52 elite bridge players, the article argues that preparation and practice are required to improve play, alongside the ability to combine deception with notions of skilfully supportive transparent play. These contradictions are played out through learning to read the impressions given off by other players as well as plan in a disciplined manner for mistakes made at the table and to support their partner through silence. Using an interactionist framework, this article illustrates how strategic interaction and impression management are skills continually worked on in high-pressured and competitive environments. The article demonstrates the ways that everyday interaction practices are enhanced by and through a competitive mind-sport
Aesthetics · Elite · Everyday life · Impression management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Silence · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sport Psychology and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society
Playing with emotions
Mind Sports
Bridging brains
Promoting traditional leisure
Between equality and discrimination
Bridging time
Situating bridge
Building, not burning bridges in research
Serious leisure experience in a dyadic pursuit
Bridging Stigma
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players' sensorial experiences
Paying to Be at the Bridge Table
Erving Goffman
With the Boys
Strategic Interaction
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Intimate Deception in Everyday Life
Behavior in Public Places
The problematic nature of participation in contract bridge
Resituating Erving Goffman
Reflections on Doing Research Grounded in My Experience of Perinatal Loss
Ethnographic strategies for making the familiar strange
Getting Away from It All
Reclothing the Emperor
The Presentation of Dead Selves in Everyday Life
Chess Playing as Strategic Activity
Credibility, Agency, and the Interaction Order
Dirty secrets and being 'strange
The intimate insider
Reproduction and Transformation of Cultural Forms in Sport A Contextual Analysis of Rugby
(Per)forming identity in the mind-sport bridge
Sociologies of Everyday Life
Exploring Participant-centred Reflexivity in the Research Interview
Sociology and game theory
Virgins, Terrorists, and Ten Children
Manipulation in Board Game Interactions
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |