Games
Like all social institutions games exist, only to the extent, there are individuals willing to participate in them. As social institutions need for their survival, members have to subordinate their personal needs and desires to the socially agreed on set of rules and rituals.
This point emphasized by Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget,
"It's through game playing, through the give and take of negotiating plans, settling disagreements, making and enforcing rules, keeping and making promises that children come to understand the social rules that makes cooperation with others possible. As a consequence, peer groups can be self governing, members capable of autonomous, moral and democratic thinking."
Likewise, sociologist George Herbert Mead wrote that when playing games "children learn social responsibility, to relate to others and to integrate themselves within the social collective. In playing a game, children must be ready to take the attitude of everyone involved in the game".
The Power of Play
David Elkind PhD.
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