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Social Structure and Games

Social Structure and Games A Cross-Cultural of the Analysis Structural Correlates of Game Complexity BURTON B. SILVER Florida Atlantic University The and focus the role of in conceptual empirical upon games culture has been for some time noted in the literature et (Roberts al., Roberts and Roberts et 1959; Sutton-Smith, 1962, 1966; al., 1963; The latter focus is in Lenski, 1970; Ball, 1972). Durkheimian large part in orientation. Durkheim out that aesthetic Indeed, pointed specifically life is bound to social structural forms-"for it in the given appears nature of that this noble form of and recreation things sport develops side side with the serious life which it serves to balance and relieve" by 1964a: (Durkheim, 26). between and macrostructural forms is noted relationship games TIhe Lenski He shows that of are more common by (1970). games strategy in more differentiated societies and advanced highly (agrarian than in less forms differentiated horticultural horticultural) (simple and and Games of skill are in all hunting gathering). present societies, and of chance tend to be concentrated at both extremes of games differentiation. No is to delineate the various made, however, structural attempt elements these societal nor is to made underlying types, any attempt establish one form of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pacific Sociological Review SAGE

Social Structure and Games

Silver, Burton B.
Pacific Sociological Review , Volume 21 (1): 18 – Jan 1, 1978
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SAGE
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© 1978 Pacific Sociological Association
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0030-8919
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1533-3867
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10.2307/1388869
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A Cross-Cultural of the Analysis Structural Correlates of Game Complexity BURTON B. SILVER Florida Atlantic University The and focus the role of in conceptual empirical upon games culture has been for some time noted in the literature et (Roberts al., Roberts and Roberts et 1959; Sutton-Smith, 1962, 1966; al., 1963; The latter focus is in Lenski, 1970; Ball, 1972). Durkheimian large part in orientation. Durkheim out that aesthetic Indeed, pointed specifically life is bound to social structural forms-"for it in the given appears nature of that this noble form of and recreation things sport develops side side with the serious life which it serves to balance and relieve" by 1964a: (Durkheim, 26). between and macrostructural forms is noted relationship games TIhe Lenski He shows that of are more common by (1970). games strategy in more differentiated societies and advanced highly (agrarian than in less forms differentiated horticultural horticultural) (simple and and Games of skill are in all hunting gathering). present societies, and of chance tend to be concentrated at both extremes of games differentiation. No is to delineate the various made, however, structural attempt elements these societal nor is to made underlying types, any attempt establish one form of

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Published: Jan 1, 1978

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