Detail Review: Thomas S. Henricks, Play Reconsidered: Sociological Perspectives on Human Expression. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. US$25.00. 239 pp.   Oleh:  Pickering, Michael Jenis: Article from Article Dalam koleksi: European Journal of Communication vol. 23 no. 1 (2010), page 112-116. Topik: Sociological; Human Expression Fulltext: 112.full.pdf (140.45KB) Isi artikel Play is conventionally understood in its differentiation from seriousness and being serious. Play is play because it is not serious, a statement that defines it against seriousness as an inevitable negative. Approaching play in that sense does not identify what is specific to it. This can only be considered by thinking about the seriousness of play, and the act of playing seriously. In such play, the seriousness of purposes and means–end rationality becomes suspended. Playing is not acknowledged as an intention to be set off against seriousness and the seriousness of purposes, for play has its own non-purposive purpose. The value of this is not defined from outside by an instrumental rationality, as nothing more than a source of diversion and light relief. That is why it is inadequate to declare that play is simply the opposite of seriousness. Play exceeds such dualisms. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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