Games let people play with the forms of sociability itself

Evidence

The more profound, double sense of “social game” is that not only the game is played in a society (as its external medium) but that, with its help, people actually “play” “society.” — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2209

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Simmel defines the double sense of ‘social game’ — playing a game within society vs. playing with society itself.

Related

• Social games are society played as a self-contained form. (similarity 0.95)
• In social games players perform the very structure of society itself (similarity 0.90)
• Sociability among equals is an artificial stylized game, not a return to natural self (similarity 0.82)
• Sociable pretenses of equality are lies only when they serve external purposes. (similarity 0.80)