Social game

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In game science, social play is a form of play in which behavior based on partnership , communication and cooperation with playmates determine what happens in the game.

Game development

In terms of game history, a natural development can be observed in uninfluenced children from “solo” or “individual play” via “parallel play” to “social game”: “The Viennese School of Psychology and William Stern had also observed and tried to play social games within the children's entire repertoire of games, to find the typical sequence in which the children learn and train social play. ” Accordingly, in the initial phase of developing his or her playful abilities and possibilities , the toddler is initially occupied alone, in individual games, with gripping and trying out the objects in his environment through play . In this first phase, playing partners still have no place in the game and game setup. This is followed by a transition phase: "Before the coordinated social game comes about, one can often observe an intermediate form between the individual game and the social game, the parallel game." The parallel game is characterized by the fact that the children still play for themselves, often even with the same object. and not yet cooperate with each other. They act separately next to each other, but are already watching what the other child is doing. This sometimes leads to taking over their actions, repeating them and trying them out for yourself: “A forerunner of the social game is the parallel game in which two or more children play next to each other, often with the same toy, and observe each other.” First in one The third stage of development is the social game. It is about two or more children communicatively handling a toy or working on a game idea together and playing it off with each other by giving and receiving impulses.

In pedagogical and therapeutic medicine, the use of social games is often combined with didactic or therapeutic purposes, in the pedagogical sector, for example, to work through deficits in social behavior or to overcome social isolation, in therapeutic, for example, to get trauma under control.

Meaning

Social games serve to promote cooperation in the game. "The players are partners, opponents, teachers, helpers." "We can [...] bring our social skills into play, for example help our teammates, protect, secure, advise, calm, tension, entertain, comfort, guide them show something, they ask them to listen, build relationships, make them community: " Depending on the nature of the game, whether adventure game , fighting game , construction game , role play , shadow play or dance game can have very different social virtues through the game to fruition. In adulthood and still in senior games , the social game usually has the function of creating sociability and community and entertaining it in an entertaining way.

Regular social games are also common when dealing with pets , especially dogs . Playing together with conspecifics or humans meets an animal's need, creates affection and strengthens mutual bonds: “Dogs love social games, that is, games with one or more partners. They also play with themselves once, usually with the help of an object, but the social game is the greatest for them. "

Web links

Wiktionary: Social game  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

literature

  • Andreas Flitner : Play - Learn. Practice and interpretation of the children's game . Piper. Munich-Zurich 1996. p. 96. ISBN 3-492-20022-2 .
  • Wolfgang Einsiedler : Social games . In: Ders .: The children's game . Klinkhardt. Bad Heilbrunn 1991. pp. 68-71.
  • Siegbert A. Warwitz , Anita Rudolf: Body and players as game impulses , In: This .: From the sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . Schneider Verlag, 4th edition, Baltmannsweiler 2016, pp. 141–146. ISBN 978-3-8340-1664-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Flitner: Playing - Learning. Practice and interpretation of the children's game . Piper. Munich-Zurich 1996. p. 96.
  2. ↑ Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann: Developmental Psychiatry . Schattauer. Stuttgart 2008, p. 227.
  3. ↑ Knut Vollmer: Specialized dictionary for educators and pedagogical specialists . Herder. Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 2017. p. 175.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Einsiedler: Social games . In: Ders .: The children's game . Klinkhardt. Bad Heilbrunn 1991. pp. 68-71.
  5. ↑ Hans Zulliger: Healing powers in children's play. Klotz Publishing House, Magdeburg 2007.
  6. ^ Stefan Schmidtchen: Play therapy with children. Goals, successes, mode of action , In: Luis Erler, Rainer Lachmann, Herbert Selg (eds.): Game . Nostheide. Bamberg 1988. pp. 64-87.
  7. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Body and players as game impulses , In: Dies .: From the sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . Schneider Verlag, 4th edition, Baltmannsweiler 2016, p. 141.
  8. ↑ Warwitz / Rudolf: Body and players as game impulses , ibid p. 142.
  9. ↑ Karin Joachim: Play with me! - Why social play with people is so important. March 22, 2016, accessed July 5, 2020 .